From Asylums to Recovery

The overlying theme among this internet group is pessimism and dismissiveness towards mental illness recovery.

Some people recover without formal services; some people say they recover in spite of the anti-recovery influences of poor service systems; while others ...

Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one's life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness' [42].

I believe that recovery can mean that we learn to live with our mental illness, we manage it in a way that works for us, we understand it & ...

In this paper, we identify seven mis-uses (“abuses”) of the concept of recovery: recovery is the latest model; recovery does not apply to “my” patients.

This perspective paper aims to present a personal viewpoint on the impact of psychiatric discourse on the principles of recovery in mental health care.

Recovery from mental illness is most effective when a holistic approach is considered; this includes psychological, emotional, spiritual, physical and social ...

The Recovery movement has promoted reforms of mental health care systems at various levels, especially focusing on the participation of service ...

Most likely that they tried many things without results. That is just the state of psychiatric medicine.

A large portion of creators who post about awareness to their disorders also preach some heavy anti-recovery stuff.