WHAT IS RECOVERY?
This is a quote from an article in "On Our Way: Recovery News" put out by the Vancouver Acute & Community Mental Health Services - Summer 2011 Issue -- Volume 1, Issue 7.
Our regular contributor, Sharon, asks -- What is recovery, anyways? The age-old question. What are people's thoughts?So what are we meaning by recovery? Is it recovery in the sense of the “recovering alcoholic” - someone who was ill and will forever be in the process of getting better, ever threatened by the possibility of a return of the problem? Is it recovery like when we have the flu - sick as can be for a while and then we get better and we are just like we were before? Or is it recovery as it is for someone who has lost a limb -- deeply traumatized, healed of the wound but forever changed and debilitated. Is recovery a return to the previous path? Can we get back on the road and continue the journey after a significant detour?
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