My five wishes worksheet
By
HappierTherapy
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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What is the theory behind My Five wishes worksheet?
The idea behind the My five wishes worksheet is that you must have some control over your life even when you are not in the state of taking decisions for your life. With the Five wishes worksheet, you can decide prior to a crisis situation who should be the person that provides you support, how you wanted to be treated, and other healthcare-related decisions. It gives you a sense of control over your life that even when you won’t be able to take decisions, whoever will do this, he/she will take decisions according to your will.
How will this worksheet help?
This worksheet will help you to have a sense of control over your life. People at certain age felt that they are losing control of their life and they don’t know what will happen in the time of emergency or crisis. So this worksheet is the best tool to get that control back by deciding what and how things should go in times of uncertainty. Individuals can express his/her medical, personal, and emotional needs in this worksheet so his/her caregiver should know what to do.
How to use this worksheet?
Take some time out and relax before starting this worksheet so that you can take better decisions for yourself. Print a hard copy of this worksheet and fill it out after thinking about every question in detail. You can also involve any family member, friend, or loved one who you trust and anyone whose decisions and suggestions are helpful to you. Read the worksheet again after completing it and reconsider every decision you made. If you feel there should be any changes, go for it.
