title: How people negotiate for success as psychosis emerges.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study focuses on how people try to successfully manage daily life despite emerging but undetected psychosis and explores how those who know them support their success.
  
  
  METHODS
  The findings we report here are part of a larger qualitative study. After a diagnosis of psychosis was made, participants were asked to reflect on the period before their first episode.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We categorize and describe how participants actively negotiated for success in activities and social situations during the prepsychotic period. We also explain strategies used by significant others to support this success and how all study subjects portrayed emerging difficulties as normal.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We give some examples of how early detection and recovery programmes may modify their current practices as they consider that individuals may have already discovered strategies to actively deal with functional and social decline that was occurring during the prepsychotic period.
authors.affiliation: The Cleghorn (Early Intervention in Psychosis) Program, 25 Charlton Avenue East, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. hwoodsid@stjoes.ca
authors.forename: Harriet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Woodside
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Krupa
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pocock
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D057566:Self Report; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012944:Social Support