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"I define emotional recovery as trusting and believing in yourself again and wanting to be you. Focusing on this gives you the confidence, motivation and patience to persist and do the hard work it takes to recover. We need to create more dialogue about how we're feeling and how our mental health is." What if we answered honestly when someone asked how we were doing? Sarah Merritt Ryan - writer, speaker, and advocate living in full remission from schizophrenia - knows what it costs to pretend you're fine when you aren't. She also knows what it feels like to stop pretending. Emotional recovery is about reclaiming your voice, being honest about how you actually are, and refusing to suffer in silent shame. That takes courage. And it takes a culture that makes it safe to tell the truth - in clinics, in workplaces, in communities. Read more from Sarah: https://ow.ly/MTqN50ZjCrc #MentalHealthAwareness #EmotionalRecovery #EndStigma #SchizophreniaAwareness
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