Please Read This

[Polarshift]

Here is a passage from Patricia Deegan Conspiracy of Hope

Recovery does not refer to an end result. It does not mean that one is cured nor does it mean that one is simply

stabilised or maintained in the community. Recovery often involves a transformation of the self wherin one both

accepts ones's limitation and discovers a new world of possibilty's-recovery is a way of life. It is an attitude and a way of approaching the day's challenges.

Take Care

Polar shift

[Former-Member]

Thanks for posing, @Polarshift , i'm feeling a bit conflicted about the idea of recovery but thats probably more my current state making it hard to believe that recovery is even a possibility unless my problem is more that i refuse to give into my limitations (that are set by my psychiatrist lol). not sure about transformation either as there's nothing really to transform.. think i really need a new me, new foundation to build something out of. again.. its probably just a bad day to be thinking lol!

lj

[NikNik]

Hi @Polarshift

Thanks for sharing this! It's an interesting perspective on Recovery.

You might want to check out this discussion called 'What does recovery look like for you'

It is really interesting to read all the different perspectives!

Take care,

Nik

[stan]

REcovery for me is living life the way you want to live-depite what others may think or even say.  I've dropped all the shrinks and nurses they weren't helping me really.

Stan.

[Appleblossom]

I think a lot of things can improve if we change our focus from passivity to action ...

What do people think of the website

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[Appleblossom]

Thanks for the info on Pat Deegan  @Polarshift... I found her more convincing than Brene Brown ... Pat's earthy humour is at her own expense not her mothers ... the only way to do humour .. and she has solid education and lived experience .. what more can you ask for

no we do not want to become docile pill swallowers. .. or at least I do not...

[Terry]

'Recovery' is the latest catchphrase in mental health, along with 'mindfulness'.  'Human kindness' is what we actually need more than psychological techniques and 'recovery' seems to refer more to bouncing back from being crushed and traumatised in psych wards rather than bouncing back from an episode.  People have to recover from any health condition - why place any particular emphasis on recovering from mental illness - it's clearly about surviving the hospital experience the best you can.  'Human kindness' - TLC - is what people with mental illnesses need most and it's usually the last thing we get - in fact, people with mental illnesses generally get little but cruelty.  Show yourself the love, the best you can, and take it easy.  And be careful of those 'ideal brain pathology delusion syndrome' (normal) people - they're weird.

[Appleblossom]

For a long time I have been talking about normal curves when people raise the "normal" issue ... or I use the word typical or common.

Normal just refers to a range of behaviours ..

Normative ... involves values and judgments

but nobody really wants to be like the old beer swilling Norm .. at least not any more.

we are all unique .. but we can push individualism too far too ... best just take another breathe.

[Terry]

i'm tired of explaining to them that there's no such thing as normal.  i'm going to stand on my head in a corner.  they can be 'normal' if it's so darned important to them.

[stan]

hi all, hope u r well. my big news is that the medication i have been taking for over 15 years has caused me heart disease! oh what a happy time!!

love stan 🙂