What is recovery?
Recovery is about people experiencing and living with mental health challenges in their lives and the personal goals they want to achieve regardless of the presence of those challenges.
It is very much determined by the individual’s own interpretation of what recovery means to them and recognises their right to create a good life, make a home, engage in meaningful work or learning and build good relationships with family, friends and people in their community.
“For people like me who use services it's about finding ways of coping and managing with your mental health problems so that you can recover or rebuild a meaningful life..... and that's not contingent on getting rid of symptoms it's actually finding a way of managing them.” Julie Repper, Director of IMROC; lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Mental health services around the world are focusing on finding ways of supporting people's personal recovery and encouraging mental health professionals to work in a recovery-orientated way. This means acknowledging the expert knowledge every person has about their own illness and symptoms, and working together to take joint decisions about what treatment is appropriate.
“Our vision is to help to achieve recovery orientated services which keep the person at the centre, which keep their lived experience at the centre, which looks at co-producing the supports that we deliver to people in mental health services.” Tony Leahy, General Manager, Service Improvement Unit, Mental Health Division HSE
Recovery is about people experiencing and living with mental health challenges in their lives and the personal goals they want to achieve regardless of the presence of those challenges.
It is very much determined by the individual’s own interpretation of what recovery means to them and recognises their right to create a good life, make a home, engage in meaningful work or learning and build good relationships with family, friends and people in their community.
“For people like me who use services it's about finding ways of coping and managing with your mental health problems so that you can recover or rebuild a meaningful life..... and that's not contingent on getting rid of symptoms it's actually finding a way of managing them.” Julie Repper, Director of IMROC; lived experience of mental health difficulties.
Mental health services around the world are focusing on finding ways of supporting people's personal recovery and encouraging mental health professionals to work in a recovery-orientated way. This means acknowledging the expert knowledge every person has about their own illness and symptoms, and working together to take joint decisions about what treatment is appropriate.
“Our vision is to help to achieve recovery orientated services which keep the person at the centre, which keep their lived experience at the centre, which looks at co-producing the supports that we deliver to people in mental health services.” Tony Leahy, General Manager, Service Improvement Unit, Mental Health Division HSE
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