Wow - good stuff in all these posts. For me recovery is an attitude, a state of being, an awareness of an illness and trying to progress and live happily with it. I will never be cured of my mental illness(es) but have learned to live with it and better myself because of it. There are, and will be times where I can't function at a socially acceptable level, but I will be in recovery because I am always working towards my ideal self (which is totally unattainable, I don't believe in human perfection) but its the progress that counts!