Tuesday, September 8, 2009

NIne components of recovery - Part 2 - Community Blog - Practitioners - Wired In

 

….In their book, Davidson and colleagues describe nine components of being in recovery from mental illness. I outlined the first three components in my last blog:

  1. Renewing hope and commitment to one’s life
  2. Being supported by others
  3. Finding one’s niche in the community.

I now describe the next three components keeping close to Davidson’s description, but referring explicitly to addiction and serious substance use problems when necessary:

 

4. Redefining self or changing one’s identity……

5. Incorporating illness…..

 

6. Managing symptoms……

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1 comment:

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I love gardening and messing about with the camera so you should see me joining in with those for starters.

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