Showing that a diffusion process is positive recurrent

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Consider an one-dimensional diffusion, with values in $(0,\infty)$, solution of the SDE

$$dX_t = \mu(m-X_t)dt + \sigma X^{\psi}_tdB_t$$

Where $B_t$ is a standard one-dimensional brownian motion, $m>0,\sigma>0,\mu>0,\psi \in (0,\frac{1}{2})$ and $X_0 \in (0,\infty)$.

Show that

a) This diffusion is positive recurrent

b) The stationary measure $\pi$ integrates $x^q$ for $q \in \mathbb{R}$

For the positive recurrence, one usually looks at the scale function. The thing is that the presence of the term $X^\psi_t$ on the diffusion function confuses me when building the scale function. Any help or insights are greatly appreciated.