I would like to engage in a discussion with those familiar with language used in literature on issues concerning mental health. I'd particularly appreciate discussing with mental health service survivers and those who take a social model stand on mental health issues as well as those interested in psychiatric impairments.
I'm currently reading an article discussing employment as a "means of promoting recovery" for people with 'mental health conditions'. I'm pondering the use of the word 'recovery' and would like to hear the opinions of people from differing paradigms on what that word means and its suitability in the context of what I'm reading.
I don't yet know what I understand 'mental health conditions' to be. If a mental health condition is not an illness but a construct then it is not something from which people necessarily recover. It may simply be a label to describe difference.
If people don't recover because they are not ill, just different, what then is employment doing (if not promoting 'recovery')?
all thoughts appreciated,
Jan
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