Recovery from Mental Illness

What's your endgame? (What do you mean you don't have one?)

I would define recovery as not just bringing people back to socialised reality with hallucinatory neurotoxic drugging. It ought to be a last resort and consensual to give out psychotropics like candy to the unsuspecting public who generally won't know any better at the point of crisis.

However, let's consider that most psychiatric intervention results in some form of hospitalisation or day clinic with home treatment and a repeat prescription upon discharge.

Ultimately your recovery gathers momentum when compliance ends and deprescription negotiation begins. As a rule of thumb the longer one had been (consistently) taking their neurotoxic drugs the longer it ought to take to taper down safely and effectively to lessen the withdrawal symptoms of relapse.

Your endgame will come with maturity like a second coming of age when you are past that initial episode of craziness which got you noticed by others circling like vultures waiting to get you incarcerated for that original bout of orchestra…