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~*~*~HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008~*~*~
May 2008 bring Joy, Health, Happiness, Wealth, Success, Courage and Strength.
Stephanie
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The Basics of Recovery
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1. Remaining hopeful and envisioning a future growth and development.
2. Having the right to choose – without it there is no motivation
3. Knowing that you are not a label or a diagnosis. You are a living, changing person, not an object.
4. Speaking for ourselves. When others speak for us we are devalued. |
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 I don’t like negativity. I don’t like seeing myself as a victim. And I don’t believe misery loves company. I’m recovering from my illness because I know I don’t have to be this way. 
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5. Establishing our own homes in the community where we can choose our roommate or live alone.
6. Acknowledging the need for friends, peers and intimate relationships.
7. Realizing that peer support and self-help groups keep us grounded and connected.
8. Protecting and nurturing the spirit within us.
9. Knowing all things are possible and that to be alive is a miracle |
Recovery, as we currently understand it, means growing beyond the catastrophe of mental illness and developing new meaning and purpose in one’s life. It means taking charge of one’s life even if one cannot take complete charge of one’s symptoms…. Recovery is a deeply personal, unique process of changing one’s attitude, values, goals and skills and or/roles.
