But we have to keep hoping for a cure, don't we?
I spent six months preparing a power point presentation on stages of recovery and fifty minutes delivering it. My co-presenters and I described the misery of the Chemistry Experiment, and the hope offered by other interventions that harness the brain's capacity to heal itself. Medicine is a piece of the answer, but just not inadequate to carry the whole load of healing.
But DNA operates even deeper in an organization than in an individual. NAMI was born out of the medical model, when parents who had been wrongly accused of causing their children's illness pushed back and insisted on their innocence. Mental illness is not caused by distant fathers and overprotective mothers. Mental illness is a physical illness.
Yes it is. Whether it arises from chemistry, wiring or structure, it is an illness in the brain, a physical organ, inside a body.
Well, it was a short jump from that insight to the search for a cure, a medical cure. Because that is what medicine does, it cures physical illness, right?
So there was that question, the NAMI parent's quest for a cure, in response to all our elegant talk about Recovery, the NAMI peer's quest for a life worth living. Forget Recovery. Don't we have to keep hoping for a cure?
I spent six months preparing a power point presentation on stages of recovery and fifty minutes delivering it. My co-presenters and I described the misery of the Chemistry Experiment, and the hope offered by other interventions that harness the brain's capacity to heal itself. Medicine is a piece of the answer, but just not inadequate to carry the whole load of healing.
But DNA operates even deeper in an organization than in an individual. NAMI was born out of the medical model, when parents who had been wrongly accused of causing their children's illness pushed back and insisted on their innocence. Mental illness is not caused by distant fathers and overprotective mothers. Mental illness is a physical illness.
Yes it is. Whether it arises from chemistry, wiring or structure, it is an illness in the brain, a physical organ, inside a body.
Well, it was a short jump from that insight to the search for a cure, a medical cure. Because that is what medicine does, it cures physical illness, right?
So there was that question, the NAMI parent's quest for a cure, in response to all our elegant talk about Recovery, the NAMI peer's quest for a life worth living. Forget Recovery. Don't we have to keep hoping for a cure?