Article from Recovery network: Toronto : Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation

Written by Patricia E. Deegan Ph.D.

The word “recovery” has now stuck onto every sentence uttered in mental health services just so we’ll know just how “recovery oriented” everything and everyone has now become.
“Recovery oriented” is now an established branding but just what does that mean?
And what do they mean by “recovery”? 
In this article Pat Deegan shares at some length, her journey of how she started to struggle,  how things started to take a strange turn for her, then how others – adults – took charge and decided that she was ill and that they needed to take control of and set limits on her life.

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