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Mental Health Support

momto3

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1. I like this definition.

Reply to HereSince1628 (Original post)

Fri Dec 23, 2011, 10:43 AM

Dec 2011

Most people associate recovery with an ending. No one "recovers" from mental illness in this sense, we learn to manage and treat our illness so that we can cope with and survive the requirements for "normal" every day life.

As a scientist, I like to equate mental illness with cancer or diabetes. I have found that people relate better to these diseases than to mental diseases. But, just like cancer and diabetes, there is no "recovery". There is maintenance of the disease. Diabetes can be controlled, but does not go away. Likewise, cancer can go into remission, but no worthwhile MD would ever state that it is cured.

Recovery is a life long process is what we deal with.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] HereSince1628 Dec 2011 OP

I like this definition. momto3 Dec 2011 #1

I have a degree in science too. I couldn't say if no one recovers (sensu 'is healed') HereSince1628 Dec 2011 #2