Navigating Rocky Waters: Recovery Journeys in Mental Health

We all need hope, it is central to our mental health and well being. Recovery for those with mental illness (depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anorexia, bulimia, borderline personality disorder) has its ups and downs but with the right support at the right time people can captain their own lives. Join us at www.promise.global.
There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of mental health services between care and control. As our services have evolved within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust we too have grappled with this dilemma. On our transformation journey we have been guided by the recovery philosophy. Capturing hope, creating agency and realizing a life beyond illness underlie all that we do. We are acutely aware that there is no place for force in recovery. However the use of force continues, we believe that proactive systems can help us navigate through the choppy waters of the care and control contradiction. PROMISE is the canvas which hopes to collate and replicate all such proactive initiatives and make the use of force redundant. We have come to believe that seemingly binary positions like risk and recovery or care and control are part of a spectrum, without risk there is no recovery, with the right care there patients will have more control. To help our colleagues draw inspiration from individual recovery journeys of our patients we have used a nautical analogy. This brief film is full of life jackets, lifeboats, anchors, lighthouses, maps, compasses, etc. So, we hope you enjoy being at sea.

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As far as we can see this is the first film on Recovery journey in mental health. We are keen to translate the film into as many languages as possible. If you have any suggestions or are interested in helping us translate the film please do get in touch. We believe placing Recovery at the heart of what we do is going to be the most effective way to fight the darkness of stigma which envelopes the world of mental health.

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