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uncanny-tranny · 1 year ago

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When we talk about recovery, I think we have to remember that recovery must be an option for everybody, but it is an option, which means that not everybody will choose it, or be ready to.

Forcing people to recover when they aren't willing or ready to is just often just as cruel as whatever you deem they must recover from. You cannot recover for another person.

I say this because forcing recovery onto people is most likely pushing them further from recovery. You might think you're doing what's good for them, and that is admirable, but we have to have a sense of realism about recovery. Anybody can recover, but that doesn't mean everybody will.

#mental health #mental health advocacy #recovery #this also isn't saying that people who don't recover aren't responsible for their behaviour otherwise #but i am saying that recovery can't really be ethically FORCED onto people #was recovery from abuse something i need/ed? yes. should it have been forced on me when i wasn't ready? no #forced recovery made me turn to other MORE DESTRUCTIVE means of coping because i felt ostracized and ignored...#...because i felt like people were trying to force me to stop being a traumatized freak who burdens everybody by Existing...#...and i doubt that's what ANYbody was trying to make me feel but again...#...but that good intent doesn't translate

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