Recovery Worksheets
Just Left Hospital Checklist
My Support Map
Recovery Roadmap
In the Recovery Room:
Warning Signs Plan
My Crisis Plan
My Care List
Journalling Prompts
The People Who Know Me
These free PDF downloads are here to give you something practical to hold onto during recovery after being sectioned.
Each one is designed to support a different part of the Recovery Roadmap - from leaving hospital, to understanding your support system, recognising warning signs, crisis planning and looking after you. They are not clinical documents or a replacement for professional advice, but gentle worksheets and checklists to help you feel a little less alone, a little less overwhelmed, and a little more able to take the next small step.
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Just Left Hospital Checklist
Leaving hospital after being sectioned can feel confusing, emotional, and overwhelming.
You might be expected to suddenly return to “normal life” while still trying to understand what happened, manage medication, attend appointments, rebuild routine, and work out who to ask for help.
This printable checklist was created to make those first few days and weeks feel a little less chaotic.
The Just Left Hospital Checklist is a gentle one-page download designed for anyone who has recently left a psychiatric hospital, mental health ward, or inpatient setting. It helps you keep track of the practical things that matter after discharge - without making recovery feel like another impossible task.
Inside, you’ll find prompts to help you check:
when your next appointment is
what medication information you need
what basic things might help you feel more grounded
what small steps you can take in the first few days home
This isn’t a clinical document, and it isn’t a replacement for professional advice. It’s a simple, human checklist for the messy in-between stage after hospital - when you’re home, but everything might still feel a bit unreal.
Use it for yourself, print it out, keep it on your phone, or share it with someone supporting you.
Format: Digital PDF download
Pages: 1
Best for: The first few days or weeks after leaving hospital
Created by: Life After Being Sectioned
A gentle reminder: you do not have to rebuild your whole life at once. Start with what you need today.
My Support Map
Recovery can feel much harder when you are trying to hold everything alone.
After being sectioned, hospitalised, or going through a mental health crisis, it can be difficult to know who is actually around you, what kind of support you need, and who to contact if things start to feel difficult again.
My Support Map was created to help make that feel clearer.
This printable workbook is a gentle guide designed to help you map out the people, services, places, and practical support that can help you during recovery. It gives you space to think about professional support, crisis contacts, trusted people, practical help, peer support, and the everyday things that help you feel more grounded.
Inside, you’ll find prompts to help you think about:
who is involved in your care
who you can contact in a crisis
which friends, family, or trusted people feel safe
what practical support you might need
what helps you feel calm, connected, and grounded
what kind of support does not help
what you might want others to know if you become unwell again
This isn’t a clinical document, and it isn’t a replacement for professional advice. It’s a simple, human workbook for understanding your support network - especially in the messy in-between stage where you may be recovering, rebuilding, and still figuring out what you need.
Use it for yourself, print it out, keep it with your care plan, bring it to an appointment, or share it with someone you trust.
Format: Digital PDF download
Pages: 2
Best for: Mapping support after hospital, crisis, sectioning, or diagnosis
Created by: Life After Being Sectioned
A gentle reminder: you do not have to do recovery alone. Support does not have to be perfect to be helpful.
Recovery Roadmap
Recovering after being sectioned can feel confusing, emotional, lonely, and overwhelming.
You might be trying to understand what happened, rebuild trust in yourself, manage appointments and medication, recognise warning signs, reconnect with people, think about work, make a crisis plan, and slowly build a life that feels possible again.
This printable Recovery Roadmap was created to make that process feel a little less scattered.
The Recovery Roadmap PDF is a gentle digital download designed for anyone navigating life after psychiatric hospitalisation, sectioning, psychosis, bipolar disorder, or a major mental health crisis. It brings together all stages of the Life After Being Sectioned Recovery Roadmap in one visual, easy-to-follow resource.
Each page is designed to help you reflect on a different part of recovery without making the process feel clinical, cold, or impossible. The mind maps offer gentle reminders, practical prompts, and lived-experience language for the messy, human process of rebuilding after crisis.
This isn’t a clinical document, and it isn’t a replacement for professional advice. It’s a supportive, visual companion for the stage after hospital - when you may be asking what happened, what helps, who is safe, and how to keep going.
Use it for yourself, print it out, keep it in a recovery folder, return to one page at a time, or share it with someone supporting you.
Format: Digital PDF download
Pages: 13
Best for: Anyone rebuilding life after sectioning, psychiatric hospitalisation, psychosis, bipolar disorder, or a mental health crisis
Created by: Life After Being Sectioned
A gentle reminder: recovery does not have to happen all at once. You are allowed to move through it slowly, one stage, one page, one small step at a time.
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