I’m never sure what ‘recovery’ is, definitions are so abstract and individualistic.
However one conservative definition i have seen is What does ‘recovery’ mean?
DR. MANSCHRECK: Researchers at the UCLA
Neuropsychiatric Institute, including
Robert Liberman and Alex Kopelowicz,
proposed a definition of schizophrenia
recovery that includes sustaining 4 benchmarks
for a least 2 consecutive years:
• working or going to school full- or
part-time
No
• living independently without the need
for supervision
Partially true. I live independently but currently get support from the rehab team.
• not depending entirely on disability
insurance for financial support
Not true
• sharing activities with friends on a regular basis
No friends but i do attend a group once a week most weeks…
By these criteria i’m not ‘recovered’ and i wonder who would be here. It may be for some of us the best we can hope for is moving in the right direction rather than an end destination of ‘recovery’.
I hope you change your mind and stay and if not you find somewhere that suits you.