From Numbers to Names
Here is a 15-minute documentary about state hospital cemetery restoration. It's called, From...
Personal Medicine and the Healer Within
Imagine that you have a broken leg. You go to the hospital and a doctor sets the broken bone and...
Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient Movement and Shared Decision Making
Some people argue that shared decision making is not consistent with the principles of choice and...
The Legacy of Peer Support
In contemporary times, we are seeing a rise in the numbers and types of peer-run programs across...
When Help is Not Helpful
Sometimes help is not helpful.
Early in my recovery, after a brief interview with a psychiatrist,...
Relationships Can Heal
I have had the privilege of interviewing many people about their journey of recovery. One of the...
Mentalism, Micro-Aggression and the Peer Practitioner
I was visiting with a group of peer practitioners who were working as advocates and mentors with...
The Importance of Personal Medicine
We are hearing a lot about recovery these days and many mental health systems are seeking to...
Spiritual Lessons in Recovery
Distress, even the distress associated with psychosis, can be hallowed ground upon which one can...
History and Self-Directed Recovery
Today we talk about recovery as if it is a new idea. However, the idea that people recover is not...
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.
