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Internet searches for Mental Illness Recovery and/or Mental Health Recovery, result in over 500,000 references which in turn connect to more references. Below are the first ten listings, along with a summary of what you might find if you went to the site. We also added a few sites that we found interesting and wanted to pass along. Be sure to do the same with your favorite sites and recovery tips by clicking on Let’s Talk – We’ll remind you again at the end of this summary.
Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow – August 2002
Colleen Fitzpatrick of wrote an article “A New Word in Serious Mental Illness – Recovery” which discusses recovery from a customer and researcher perspective. This article answers questions such as “what is recovery”, “what is Mental Illness” moving the reader to some consistent definitions to better answer the question “What is recovery?” Since there are over 500,000 listings we need some help in identifying the user friendly sites, the informative sites, the recovery tools sites, and any other that you were glad you stumbled upon. If you have come across some web sites which aid in recovery please let us know by going to the Let’s Talk page or email us through the Contact Us page with Website Tips in the Subject line and your favorite website with a brief summary. We’ll post it along with our other listings!
BiPolar.com:
www.bipolar.com: The site Shogun used to find out more about
her disorder and how to cope with it. This site gave her hope. (See
Shogun's
story under My Story)
The Infinite Mind
Message Board
Mental Health Recovery
Videos from MIEP Michigan Consumer/Survivor/Expatient Organizations: This site identifies 42 consumer run and consumer serving organizations in the State of Michigan. There are about 22 consumer run organizations in Michigan, DISH, Inc. of Calhoun County is one of those organizations who focus on self help and recovery through Cafe' Can Do a consumer skills training facility, Center for Recovery Awareness a central location providing recovery information and tools, and the Share Drop In Center. www.contac.org/michigan.htm
NAMI (National Alliance
for the Mentally Ill) – About Mental Illness
http://www.nami.org
National Empowerment Center – NEC News Results for Mental Illness Recovery – view today’s stories” is exactly that any news articles pertaining to mental illness recovery. On September 8, 2004 the lead article was from the Seattle Times “Cognitive therapy helps people change the way they think”. According to this article, 50-60% of those diagnosed with depression and complete this therapy show significant improvement. Catch the entire article yourself by going to http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2002028833_healthcognitive08.html.
NMHA (National Mental Health
Association) – Fact Sheet Index Recovery from Mental Illness http://akmhcweb.org/links.htm takes you to a site brought to you by the Alaska Mental Health Consumers. The site list is broken down into three areas about recovery; stories, articles, and activities. Under each of these sections are titles which are linked to information either in the form of stories, articles written by consumers, or strategies for recovery. Lots of free information.
Action Plan for Recovery: Under Recovery Activities there
is an article entitled: “Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery: A
Self-Help Guide”. We have copied the first few pages of the tool kit for your
review. Go to the website to read the rest of the story. Psych Forums:
www.PsychForums.com:
Provides multiple links to discussion and support forums around personality and
mental health disorders.
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