Recovery from Mental Illness

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This paper discusses how recovery is a unifying human experience that transcends both illness and disability and how, in regard to mental illness, recovery has not been addressed through research or discussion as extensively as recovery from physical illness or injury. It looks at how recovery involves much more than symptom alleviation and how it is a subjective, unique process of altering and adapting one's values, attitudes, goals, feelings, and roles in order to live a more satisfying, hopeful, and fulfilled life.

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"Deegan (1988) illustrates the parallels in recovery between mental and physical illness through the description of her personal experiences with schizophrenia and a man's experiences as a quadriplegic. Similar sequences of events were experienced by her and the man, as they both went through phases of denial, anguish, and in time, hope. The author emphasized the fact that recovery is not a sudden conversion experience, and that hope is a turning point at which the willingness to act must be initiated quickly. Little steps must be taken in order to ensure progress on the path to recovery."

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