Rehabilitation Wellness Recovery Recovery is a common human experience. We all experience recovery at some point in our lives from injury, from illness, or from trauma.
Psychiatric disability has a devastating impact on the lives of people who experience it.
It is devastating because people with psychiatric disability are left profoundly disconnected from themselves, from others, from their environments, and from meaning or purpose in life. Recovery is the process by which people with psychiatric disability rebuild and further develop these important personal, social, environmental and spiritual connections, and, confront the devastating effects of stigma through personal empowerment. Recovery is a process of adjusting one's attitudes, feelings, perceptions, beliefs, roles and goals in life. We believe that it is never too late to begin the recovery process. Understanding the recovery process and our own recovery experience are important first steps in returning to a life that is fulfilling for ourselves and contributing to others.