The Difference Between Recovered and Cured

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For further proper education on the differences between recovered and cured, when it comes to experiencing mental challenges in life, (episodically or ongoing) please reference Chapter 2 of my latest advocacy public presentation "Holistic & Transpersonal Ethics for Modern Psychiatry." The chapter is posted here in full, but you are most welcome to read my entire speech in full (linked below) to get a truer perspective of the overall content...

2. The Difference Between Recovery and Cured

Before I continue, I would like to make it clear that using the word recovery does not imply cured from the illness. Cured implies that the illness is totally devoid of your individual system and will never return upon you again. I have not and will never state that here, or in any of my work. What I do vouch for though, as being living proof of that, I will absolutely state beyond all doubt, that it is totally possible for individuals who encounter this horrific illness, can make a full and successful lasting recovery from it back to normal regular health and function, just as they were before the illness ever came upon them. And, providing they conduct themselves accordingly, a person “may” prevent the illness from ever striking back again with further ongoing relapses. As much as society is mislead to believe that recovery from psychosis is not at all possible, my life experience is a continuing example and living testimony that recovery from psychosis is a very real reality. As someone who has lived extensively free from permanent symptoms of psychosis, and medicated side-effects for a long time now, I will always advocate that full and lasting recovery from the nightmare of psychosis is a very real reality, back to your normal regular health again before the illness came upon you. For me, as much as I am very well aware of the early warning signs, when I do encounter a relapse, I involuntarily and unavoidably go into deep episodes very quickly and come back out of them just as quick and cleanly back to my regular stable health. All in all so far, of my six episodes of about 40 days for each, I have experienced a total of about 240 days of psychosis in my entire life… so far. So does that make me a “schizophrenic” in essence, or just a person who has encountered very fleeting episodes of psychosis, as intense as they have been? Humanely and ethically, for all our dignity, I vouch for the latter as being far more accurate and true. Extremely fortunately for me, the illness has never been so prolonged long enough to overtake and distort my natural and original character, as very sadly is the case with so many. This has been my personal and direct experience of psychosis, and as stable and well as I have been apart from those brief-intense episodes in my life, I will always advocate that very real hope for others. This has been my life testament, and as much as society is mislead to believe otherwise about recovery, and our delusion of thinking so, I will always advocate the very real possibility of full and lasting recovery for the hope and inspiration of others…However, having said all that, there is no 100 percent guarantee that I will never encounter another relapse again in my life, but with everything I have gained from my 14 years of experience, I now have substantial tools and armour to prevent such again, and will do everything in my power to continue to do so.

Summary Quote for this topic:

Recovery is a very real reality. Cured is not as yet.

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Holistic & Transpersonal Ethics for Modern Psychiatry

http://www.freeman101.com/modern.pdf

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