'RECOVERY'

In recovery we find answers we've spent a lifetime Alternately searching and running from.

Recovery is retrieving the part of yourself That got lost in the past. It's the process of traveling back in time In order to progress forward.

Recovery is a time to break down our denial systems, Write our true autobiographies, And, set aside the fictional accounts We've penned for the public all of our lives.

Although we have been silenced by voices from the past, Recovery means we embark on an emotional treasure hunt Rediscovering stifled feelings and melted tongues.

Recovery is the willingness to learn new skills To better navigate through life. It's a venture to discover and expose something you've protected and hidden your entire life---YOU!

Nancy M. Sheehan

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I appreciate your feedback. I've been at this 47 years, been misdiagnosed numerous times as well as miss-medicated (a walking pharmacy). It was just this past week that I told my therapist that PTSD is not a Mental Illness, but a Mind Injury. He responded that it is an ANXIETY DISORDER. That's the first time I've heard that in 47 years. Well, it certainly puts this sheer adversity in a different context by which to perceive PTSD from an entirely different perspective.

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BELIEVE ME...It's a long, arduous journey worthy of your existence

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This was very nice to read. Thanks.

Recovery to me would be like. Finding one new way every day to simply commit to just one day of cleanliness from <something> and deciding to go through with it. Now and even another day.

You start building a list and can run through various learned thoughts, patterns, behaviors, ideas, realizations, understandings and more. All those things to me, are methods of recovery

Hope it helps