For me term ‘recovery’ was always laiden with expectation. I go with acceptance

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I always felt I wasn’t recovered enough in the eyes of my care team. I always felt there was too much expectation with recovery. Over the last six months I have not strived for recovery but strove to be content.

The quiet domestic life is the life for me. Ever since I rejected the whole concept of ‘recovery’ in favour of acceptance I have been dramatically happier.

Not saying recovery is a bad term for everyone. Is just for me that model only brought disappointment. Acceptance is the way forward for me.

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I think that might fall into the recovery too, Acceptance is a very big step.
Depends what they expect from you too.

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Yeah I think you are right. My functioning has certainly improved. I think what I mean is that since I’ve replaced the word ‘recovery’ with the word ‘acceptance’ my life has improved and ironically have recovered more.

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In the end, do whatever makes you happy.

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Totally! That’s what matters

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I’m wary of ‘recovery’ that smacks of get them to doggy paddle in the shallow end then throw them in the deep end. I’ve long ago given up thinking I’ll recover . The main thing is to function as well as I can with support and maintain a measure of independence.

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I feel very much the same, I think you have a really good philosophy Jimbob.

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I’ve come to embrace acceptance as well. It’s such a load off for me.

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After a long time I thought I had accepted this for life, but gonna try clozaril and kind of hope I’m fixed.

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