With the Wind At My Back
The alarm woke me out of a sound sleep this very cold morning. I rolled out of bed, headed for...
The Journey to Use Medication Optimally to Support Recovery
Who am I now that I use psychiatric medicine? What is my personal motivation for using meds? Are...
Recovery and the Holidays
It's hard to believe the holiday season is nearly upon us. It can be a wonderful time of year. It...
The Trouble With Compliance
I believe the construct of compliance is unhelpful because it is a binary construct. It’s...
Hearing Distressing Voices in China
Recently I invited Lu Chen and Dr. Jian to my home. Both are from mainland China and are...
Love and Outrage: Asylum for the Colored Insane
This is the second entry for my Love and Outrage project. Starting in the early 1990's, I became...
Love and Outrage: The Crazy Woman
In the early 1990's I became interested in, not just individual recovery, but our collective...
Dignity and the Open Door
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, coined the well known phrase, “When one...
Mental Illness Made Me Do It?
12-step recovery programs have long understood that making amends to those we have harmed, even...
CommonGround Guides
CommonGround Guides put recovery tools directly into the hands of the people who need them. Each Guide contains education, workbook style exercises, Personal Medicine Cards, tracking tools and reflection questions.
Work & the Dignity of Risk
Sometimes staff are reluctant to refer folks to Supported Employment and Education Specialists. In this E-Learning course, Pat Deegan will teach you a recovery-oriented framework for managing risk and supporting choice.
Recovery Library
The Hope. The Tools. The inspiration to recover after a diagnosis of mental illness. Recovery Library offers thousands of resources to support recovery and is available for individuals and programs.
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. Our mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
