Maintaining relationships with other people

Self-management is also about maintaining relationships with people around you, this could be family, friends, or people in your local community, who are part of church and faith groups, or a local political party, or who simply go to the local pub.

Other contacts might be people who attend the same services, like the local day centre. Or people who do the same activities, like art or exercise classes.

Many people have also reported that it helps them to maintain good relationships with people by not seeing them during times of crisis.