Recovery for Mental Illness Redefined

Typical Media.
They are sponsored by numerous drug companies, that will shrug off anything that threatens their profits.

Exactly.
After 2 failed attempts, I was prescribed 3 different 'medications'.
But only when I stopped taking them did I feel more balanced.

I still feel as bad as ever now, but at least I know that medication doesn't help me.
I was more suicidal on it than off.

People think that because you don't fit in their little box of ideas, that you are mentally ill.

Good job psychetruth. Several of my friends have signed onto recovery in response to a Pat Deegan conference in Toronto several years ago. We support each other in our interests and activity. I believe it is important to follow your dreams. Occupation in the sense of interests and activity can help to boost self esteem. Nothing helps like a positive attitude. Well done!

Definitly no hope in psychiatry.

Oh I agree. The evidence out there actually points to the fact that even extreme states of mind such as schizophrenia, psychosis or bipolar episodes are nothing more than temporary mental states brought about by a reaction to extreme stress and/or trauma or drugs and that given a sufficiently safe environment and gentle enough support, the person eventually returns to full cognitive functioning and recovers.

Jane Elliot did the Brown Eye/Blue Eye thing...that's mainly what I think of about mental illness, it's a label...I think persons with mental illness do recover from this Brown Eye/Blue Eye syndrome, and the personal problems that they have are no different than the problems people without mental illnesses. I think the "recovery" is more about learning to deal with social problems.

The truth is people can fully recovery from mental disorders but since psychiatry is really powerless to cure their patients they had to redefine recovery.

Still I agree even a consumer learning to live a fulfilling life despite their disability is an improvement from simply sedating the patient.

The recovery concept was originally consumer based. It was a protest against the assumption in psychiatry that people can't become cured because the truth is people do really recover. Psychiatry for some reason can't grasp the idea that people can fully recover so they have perverted the concept into "living a fulfilling life despite your disability."

There is a video clip on here from a mental health conference where the guy says that the "recovery" concept is the best thing he has seen come along in mental health...to which I say "Huh?"...How did they justify their paychecks with out it? To me that is just common sense; but then again I am just a consumer.

Logic Fallacy: Ad Hominem and False Generalization

You indicate a belief that cures would be suppressed by a corporation without providing proof that such would occur. The attack is on the character and not on the proven history of the business itself. This is then used to generalized that all companies would act this way when you have no evidence, again, that this is the case.

That is one of the main philosphical problems with the current method of "diagnose" DSM criteria is based on deviation from some theoretical concept of normal.

The DSM doesn't even define what mental health is.

The system doesn't try to make mentally healthy individuals, just people that learn to live a successful life despite their disabilities.

For that matter things listed as "Medication Side effects" should be regarded as other illnesses and disorders needing cure and-or recovery.

Could it be that Recovery does not mean cure; because there is no Diagnostic Statistic Manual of Recovery or Diagnostic Statistic Manual of Possible Cures?

psychiatrists make a living of out of not curing, and not helping people and from no interest in whollistically curing the person at all..they are vultures on the debilitated..

the scary thing is that is a 'cure' was discovered for such illnesses the drug companies would murder/blackmail/threaten the inventors to suppress..a multi-billion industry is based on ineffective cures which non-responsive desperated people are reliant on forever!

no no no if your serious about curing mental illness look into neurofeedback.

I can't believe that statement on such an official webpage! I really hope psychiatry cleans up their act. Complete recovery is absolutely possible. One thing people might NOT be able to recover from are the long-term effects of taking serious drugs perscibed by psychiatrists.

very right
tnx

Meditation and cognitive behavior therapy can cure Post Traumatic Stress Disorder permanently. In time the anxiety, nightmares, flashbacks, paranoia, hypervigilance all gone as though they were never there. As though I had never suffered 10 years of child abuse. Meditation worked where Perphenazine failed

Mike, thank you for sharing this recovery concept with us.
I have added you on my favorites.
Thanks again.

Nice one. I suffer from PTSD and receive Motival. Day in , Day out. It helps. Kevin. Belfast , N.Ireland.

Awesome video Mike 5**** thanks again. As a former bipolar disorder sufferer, all I can say is, they are wrong. It is possible to beat mental illness on your own terms and be both medication and symptom free.

search YOUTUBE at "What Is Neurofeedback ? - EEG INFO Videos" and watch this new era of mind recovery. this stuff is incredible for mental illness and will reclaim your life.

neurofeedback is using computers to restore the brain back to orignal condition

use neurofeedback to rid any left over mental illness.