Day: December 22, 2018

religiouscharadreemurr:

recovery starts with deinstitutionalization. recovery starts with housing without strings attached. recovery starts with empowering people, not in the bullshit you-can-decide-which-of-two-equally-terrible-meals-you-can-eat-but-you-can’t-leave-your-room-without-permission sense, but in the you can chose your own housing sense, in the you can decide when to leave your house sense, in the you can have enough food to eat and it can be food you want sense, in the you can make choices about your health care sense. in the you can make meaningful choices just like any other human being sense

recovery starts with equality and treating psychiatrically diagnosed people as human beings and not as problems that need to be locked away or controlled and told their hopes are too high and unrealistic and that they need to accept a life of living in institutions or institution-adjacent homes where they have every meaningful decision about their lives made by them for someone else

meaningful attempts at helping people recover must address poverty, lack of housing, food insecurity, institutionalization, police violence, and countless other things if they want to attempt to be even remotely meaningful, let alone helpful to the people who need them