Baby Steps are the Way to Feel Better —Kathleen Hartman
I Created an Environment I Love to Live In —Crystal D. Choate
How to Survive Enough to Say, “I AM Better” —Anne Leonide Brown
Wilderness Hermit Charlie’s Journey to Recovery —Charles Hughes
Back From the Brink —Anne Costa
It Takes a Peer to Truly Help a Peer —Kerry Brown
Little By Little Things Will Change —Jennifer Morris
Try to Change Negligent or Abusive Mental Health Programs —Johnny
I Got Better and Recovered From Psychiatric Abuse —Melinda James
Graduate of the School of Hard Knocks —Matti Salminen
Part of the Human Condition —Jennifer Hill
I’m the Architect and Builder —Elizabeth
Creator of My Life —Cynthia
Making New Sense of the World —Marylou
Taking Chances in Recovery —Pat Hayes
When a Wall is There for Anyone, the Opportunity Comes for Anyone —Susan Phipps
Living Life to the Best of Your Ability —Tom Kelly
The Biggest Challenges Can Provide the Brightest Lights —Carole Hayes Collier
Steps Towards Healing and Wholeness —Anne Costa
The Person I’m in the Process of Becoming —Patricia Lindquist
An Advocate and Leader in My Community —Mary Angus
Numbness Never Gives You Meaning or Hope —Peter
Much Better and Faster at Getting Through It —Irit Shimrat
Find People Who Have Gotten Better and Learn From Them —Fred Abbe
Peel Back the Layers to Find Who You Are —Leslie Brewer
What I Consider Fundamentally “Me” —Sara Hale
Happy to Be a Rebel —Joanna
Thank You, Saul Alinsky! —catemull@gmail.com
Recovery, Healing, and Personal Evolution are Possible —Linda Simpson
Look Forward to Tomorrow —Sarah Wegner
If They Could See Me Now! —Kathleen Rhoads Merriam
Identity Change: From Mental Patient to Teacher —Susan
Transformed Into a Different Person —Michael Bilson
Stronger Because of the Path that I’ve Walked —Liz Teska
Mind, Body, and Spirit as a Unified Whole —Glen Bushers
Humor Is the Best Medicine —Mark A. Davis
Positive Ways to Deal With Life Challenges —Kerrie Melton
People Have Recovered —Marion Kolitwenzew
Compassion for Yourself —Al Galves
Living a Life of My Choosing —Christopher Busby
Your Life Has Meaning —Cyndi McKnight
Proud to Be Me! —Louise Gillett
Recovered From What? —Jean Davison
I Gained Strength and Resilience —Peggy Hardwick
Learn How To Make Your Life Better, Not Your Illness Better —Don Webber
I Will Not Remain Silent —Kristen Bellows
My Own Personal Evolution —Kathryn
Emotions Are Normal — They Are Part of Natural Life —Diana van Landeghem
There Are No Silver Bullets —Paul Nelson
I Came to a Better Understanding —Marian B. Goldstein
Aim for a Balanced Life —Carli
I Couldn’t Adjust, and That’s OK —Amanda Jensen
The Relief of Not Being Alone —Brenda Kosky
Grateful and Humble —Rita Brooks
Wisdom That Has Come to Me —Karen Midwinter
Through the Labyrinth —Prateeksha Sharma
Out of Psychiatry and Into Real Life —Katrina Henricks
You Are Not Your Illness —Rene Buchanan
Purpose and Meaning —Christina Walko
The Brain Can Return Itself to Equilibrium —Wendy Dixon
Living Life in the Way YOU Find Most Fulfilling —Amanda Back
Harness the Energy! —Cassie
Breaking Your Heart Open Into Compassion —Alina
Nothing is Impossible —Ellen
Normalcy or Health is the Ability to Work and Love —Johanna
Be Positive and Never Give Up —Catherine Penney
I Know Now… I Can Get Back Here, to My Real Life —Annette
I’m Fully Alive Now —Avril
Go Your Own Way —Jennifer
I Believe in My Recovery —Karen
If I Had Given Up —Susan
Standing Tall and Liking Yourself —Kathryn Cascio
You Won’t Be In This Place Forever —Leo
Rising Out of the Ashes —Silvia
Changes in My Life —Dorothy
An Independent, Self-Directed Life —Susan
Being My Own Advocate —Shelley
There Are a Lot of Alternative Medicines —Anonymous
I Quit the Public System —Anonymous
The Rest of My Life —Anonymous
Overcoming Tourette’s Through Meditation —Anonymous
Never Give Up Hope —Justin Scott
Starting Over —Vicci N., RN, CCM
Master of My Own Life —Anonymous
A Diagnosis is Not a Destiny —Anonymous
Recovery Isn’t Just Personal —Anonymous
Most Helpful to You —Anonymous
Inner Resources —Annette
Find Hope Within Yourself —Anonymous
What I Have Become —Anonymous
Proud to Be Who I Am —Anonymous
Focused on the Present —Anonymous
Let it Go, Today is Precious —Anonymous
Stuck On the “Med-Go-Round” —Anonymous
Broaden Your World —Melody Riefer
Recognizing the Society —Tania Jivraj
More Power Than You Know —Sarah Bobo
I Will Move Toward What I Want —Diana
Out of the Mental Health Care System —Anonymous
Take Control of My Life —Jen Banathy
More Than the Absence of Illness —Anonymous
Too Much Help Doing Too Little Good and Too Much Harm —Mary Hintz
I’m Finally Able to Become the Person I Thought I Wanted to Be in My Twenties —Christa
To Make My Life Feel Worth Living —Kerry
I’m Not My Illness —Kathleen
Vibrant, Fierce, and Fully Alive —Kelly
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