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RecoveryForID2011

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RecoveryForID2011

 


 

Introduction/Definition/etc

 

SAMHSA misses the boat again...

http://feedback.samhsa.gov/forums/129063-closed-definition-of-recovery

 

 

Body

 

While some people think the term recovery is vague, and I found it to be

almost unoperational for the Regional Recovery Work Group

it was so broad a definition and so personal that is seemed like a buzzword,

something created to change funding, but not entirely for the better,

as Providers never gave up enough control and sabotaged

Consumer / Survivor and Ex-patient efforts to self direct...

 

Also, SAMHSA is leaving out the third party in this debate,

Intellectual Disabilities.  I'm seeing the same issues in the ID

community, mostly Autism Spectrum related as I see with

Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

 

If ID is not Recoverable, then why do ABA

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis ) at all?

If you can take Self Direction from the ID community,

why can't people in the ID community and across those

arbitrary definitions live better lives?

 

Especially with late onset disorders like Aspergers,

how is one supposed to get better, if Recovery Is Not Possible?

 

What of the people who are all Three?  MH, SA AND ID?

Do they get shuffled between the silos?

Instead of one umbrella?

 

Disjointed systems and services just confuse even the best of social

workers, and what of the people who define their own services,

or provide their own care, perhaps with fiscal agents, and oversight?

And to NOT think that people, ALL People need Housing,

Food, Meaningful activity, not just sheltered work/ sweatshops,

is basically discriminatory...

 

Olmstead (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmstead_v._L.C. )

has been applied from the ID community to MH

and probably Substance Abuse, so how can you create  an artificial

partition on some people's hopes and dreams?

You can get better, but you can't because some doctor

labeled you one thing, but you another, or

the definitions changed, in DSM x+1

(for x = 1... IVTR)

 

Most autistics might balk at being lumped in with

Mental Health, many have created their own services

 and communities where the provider community

and parent and other communities have met their own

needs more than the people they were supposed to serve...

 

If Depression is a Spectrum, as more recent research is

guessing, Bipolar I, 2, etc, Cyclothymic, Major Depression,

Recurrent, Dysthymia, and so forth, and Autism is a

Spectrum disorder with a whole range of skills and abilities,

deficits, and basically attributes, arbitrary as they may

seem, Selectively Mute is not Dumb, it's a communication

disorder, just as Sign Language compensates, and Braille

compensates, writing maybe for verbal, visual for auditory,

auditory for visual, kinesthetic for verbal, etc,

people's skin color comes in all shades, and spots too,

as do the abilities, interests and hopes and dreams of

people, aspirations should not be toyed with, regulated,

defined and ignored, as frequently happens in the service

systems SAMHSA funds and is responsible for...

 

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

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