Recovery 101: For Those Who Thought They Couldn’t Recover

• By: Julie Kipp, PhD, LCSW JBFCS
• April 1st, 2013
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Advocate for the mental health recovery movement Pat Deegan wrote, “The professionals called it apathy and lack of motivation. They blamed it on our illness. But they don’t understand that giving up is a highly motivated and goal-directed behavior. For us, giving up was a way of surviving....