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(JD) · Sep 12, 2011, 03:16 PM

It has been such a long time since I've been in a good, long, conversation such as this. IRL people just don't have time, and here, well, it appears there are always those that take offense and the thread is closed long before the discussion is complete.

From that mental health peer pdf article:

Quote:

Peer support in mental health however has a more political frame of reference. Whereas
some support groups form around the shared experience of illness, peer support grew out of a civil/human rights movement in which people affiliated around the experience of negative mental health treatment. (e.g. coercion, over- medication, rights violations, as well as an over- medicalized version of their “story”). In other words, the shared experience has had more to do with responses to treatment than the shared experience of mental illness. The Independent Living Movement has been the quintessential guide to
this way of thinking.

My reference here to peer support was formulated more from the actual experience here which encompasses both the discussion of lack of or understanding of mental health care from professionals and the other-member-like-me who offers empathic support.