Recovery:About

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The Recovery Wiki editors are persons focused on writing about recovery from mental illness. It is important because in the past various different models, approaches, styles or buzz words have been used in treating mental illness. The mental Health professionals love to rehash old ideas in new packages; but the "Consumers" have spoken and the thing that they have sought out despite the resistance from mental health professionals has been termed as "Recovery." In order to preserve the essence of what recovery is, consumers must speak out and keep their hands in recovery. Consumers must never ever let the mental health professionals forget that persons with mental illness can and do recover. The talk can get stagnent and old, the pharmacuetical industry has latched on to this buzz word "recovery." There is a threat that many people will be turned off from the value of the recovery concept, if it is associated with psychopharmacology. Some proponents of the recovery movement are completely anti-psychiatry, some are anti-medicine, but almost all are ex-patients, consumers, survivors etc.