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Community Recovery Service (C.R.S.) is a Mental Health Service in East Dorset, actively promoting Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion. This site is constructed and run by service users, for service users: It is built to share News, Resources and Recovery stories as well as to allow us to air our views at the e-Community Bulletin Board and Blog. The site is expected to be a primary resource for anyone with an interest in mental health recovery and your comments are always welcome.

In August 2007 the service-user led charity Lifescopes Community Learning was formed, incorporating our Website and Learning Centre operations and dedicated to using interactive ICT as a major wellness tool for Recovery & Social Inclusion and to offer Family Learning to Carers and other family members.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fry: My battle with mental illness

Stephen Fry was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, an illness that involves episodes of mania and depression, after attempting suicide 11 years ago.

Stephen Fry, pictured above, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, an illness that involves episodes of mania and depression, after attempting suicide 11 years ago.

In the now renown tv documentary, Mr Fry interviewed celebrities who suffer from bipolar disorder, and spoke to people about living with this condition, which affects four million Britons.

Thank you Stephen! - the more that celebrities and other high profile people speak out, the more it is likely to promote understanding and reduce the stigma that we mental health service users experience on a regular basis.

We can then feel less that we live in a 'them and us' society where we can only exist apart from 'normal' people and can feel free to move more easily in our recovery back to a social inclusion.

manic depression recovery book

The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
"Everything you need to know about bipolar disorder"

© BBC Publications

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Recovery from Schizophrenia?
dateline 16 January 2008

Read how Dr Daniel Fisher and Rufas May give an account of their own recoveries in Recovery Stories

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Anxiety & Depression

Anxiety: - iampanicked.com is an informational hub that tells about symptoms, causes of anxiety and depression by offering valuable articles on depression treatment along with the information on the vitamins, herbs that helps to overcome anxiety.

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Wellness Recovery Action Plan:

WRAP Wellness Recovery Action Plan

Download Your WRAP Here

© Mary Ellen Copeland
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Development of CRS: - .... Feedback
from Service User Representation on the Steering Committee.

Progress report (.pdf)

Terms of Reference (.doc)

 

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Recovery Groups:
dateline 25 March 2008

We are carrying out our sixth Wellness & Recovery Group at Hahnemann House, Bournemouth.

We initially ran our groups for 16 -17 weeks for 90 minutes a session but have now adopted a format of running for 10 weeks with two 1 hour sessions each week.

One session runs as a supported group, brainstorming and working individually to complete each section of the WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan). The second acts as a peer support, themed based session, concentrating, more deeply, on the issues that are generated.

This has resulted in much more focused group with a higher retention rate of individuals completing all sessions.

Our Recovery groups are not focused on cure or denial of mental health problems but on the process by which we can recover from and learn to live with our difficulties.

"Symptoms" and the need for medication and other coping tools may persist but this does not have to prevent us from rebuilding our lives and self-esteem.

This "journey" of recovery will be different for each individual. It stems from within us and can never be imposed upon us.

This group recognises and values the unique knowledge and coping experience that each member brings to the session, and aims to empower us to help each other and to move our recovery forward.

We work to share our experiences with other organisations, to promote and assist in the setting up of more Recovery Groups across the region

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12 Points of Wellness:

i. You live in a place you like and can call home.

ii. You have something that you believe is meaningful to do during the day.

iii. You have at least one someone to laugh with and pour your heart out to.

iv. You like yourself (mostly).

v. You find some joy in life and have fun now and again.

vi. You see that you have choices and you are able to make a decision about what you want to do.

vii. You feel that you are able to do most of the things you would like to do.

viii. You take a calculated risk now and then.

ix. You recognise that there are some things about life and our world that cannot be changed, at least in the short term.

x. You have found a place in the world and feel reasonably good about it.

xi. When you feel bad, you are able to make yourself feel better and ask for help when you need it.

xii. When others feel bad or need help, you give when asked.

(Homeward Project, Toronto 1992)

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Build this Site with us:

Building Recovery website

Air your views on any Mental Health Recovery issues or add your Articles and Recovery Stories, online at the e-Community board or post your comments to our Blog. (You can also find our Snail-mail details on the 'About Us' page)

 

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"Ships are safe in
harbour, but that is not
what they are designed
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UK Online Centre:
dateline 11 October 2007

Mental Health UK Online Centre

We have been a UK Online centre since 10th January 2007. Specialising in using ICT to aid in mental health recovery, we are part of a government supported project of over 2600 centres, using computers and the internet to help those groups of people identified as being most socially excluded.

2007/2008 Grant Funding

This year Lifescopes Community Learning was awarded £10,000 User Journey Grant Funding for the Learning Centre at Hahnemann House. We have been able to expand our service to many more of our clients as well as opening to Carers and other family members.

C&G Test Centre

From 9 October 2007, we have been a City & Guilds registered Test Centre for Level 2 Learndirect Coures.

Learn Direct outreach sessions are provided to us by Clearwater Associates on Tuesday afternoons.

Once enrolled, students can continue their online learning alongside our other clients, on any day Mon - Fri, after 10.00am.

Courses are available in Maths, English and IT and are free to s/users on benefits. Proof of ID and benefits is required on enrollment.

The aim of the Learning Centre is to establish the confidence and skills necessary to have a choice and opportunity for further education in the community and for future employment.

Learn Direct UK at our Learning Centre

Learning Centre Workstations

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Rethink: Fight physical and mental health care injustice
dateline 14 September 2006
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
Mental health charity Rethink today backed the Disability Rights Commissions (DRC) call for better healthcare for people with mental health...


First-ever International Caregiver Survey to Show Treatment ...
dateline 18 September 2006
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
... defined as the worsening of symptoms after apparent recovery , and sheds ... Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer, World Federation for Mental Health ...

Work confirmed as beneficial to health and longevity
dateline 6 September 2006
Easier - Chester,UK
... being? concludes that being in work is good for your physical and mental health , boosting self esteem and quality of life. Adverse ...

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Mental health services 'fair' - St. Albans Observer
BBC BirminghamMental health services 'fair'St. Albans Observer, UK - 2 hours agoSecondly, whether services focus on the needs of the individual and provide care that is personalised and promote recovery and inclusion and whether ...Overcrowding and violence concerns on mental health wards Communitycare.co.ukLargest review of acute mental health services exposes continuing ... Black Mental Health UKall 180 news articles
Posted: - 24 Jul 2008 at 12:38pm

Mental health trust outlines ?3m shake-up plan - NW Evening Mail
NW Evening MailMental health trust outlines ?3m shake-up planNW Evening Mail, UK - 48 minutes agoThe trust is also working closely with other agencies on a developing a recovery strategy for people who are dealing with the after effects of mental ill ...
Posted: - 24 Jul 2008 at 2:47pm

Mind 'encouraged by Healthcare Commission report' - Craegmoor News
Mind 'encouraged by Healthcare Commission report'Craegmoor News, UK - 1 hour agoThe Pathway to Recovery: A review of NHS acute patient mental health services report classed 12 per cent of trusts as excellent, 43 per cent as fair and 29 ...
Posted: - 24 Jul 2008 at 2:06pm

Public meeting hears concerns over plans for mental health services - Whitehaven News
Whitehaven NewsPublic meeting hears concerns over plans for mental health servicesWhitehaven News, UK - 20 hours agoAnd a specialist unit for rehabilitation and recovery was planned for Carlisle, to help people receive treatment in the county instead of out of the area, ...
Posted: - 23 Jul 2008 at 6:46pm

Mental health open day - Manx Radio
Manx RadioMental health open dayManx Radio, UK - 20 hours agoPeople in the Isle of Man affected by mental health issues are being invited to a 'one day recovery conference' at the Sefton hotel today. ...
Posted: - 23 Jul 2008 at 6:37pm

Mental health charity in Douglas - Manx Radio
Manx RadioMental health charity in DouglasManx Radio, UK - 22 Jul 2008The North West regional team of mental health charity 'Rethink' is holding a one-day-recovery conference in Douglas tomorrow (Weds). ...
Posted: - 22 Jul 2008 at 2:45pm

Royal College Of Nursing Welcomes New Guidance For Providing Acute ... - Medical News Today (pres...
Royal College Of Nursing Welcomes New Guidance For Providing Acute ...Medical News Today (press release), UK - 22 Jul 2008... and promote well-being and recovery approaches. "This guidance is an effective resource which will be of great use to busy mental health professionals ...
Posted: - 22 Jul 2008 at 9:11am

Astrazeneca Sponsors Service User- Involvement In Research Into ... - Medical News Today (press r...
Astrazeneca Sponsors Service User- Involvement In Research Into ...Medical News Today (press release), UK - 16 Jul 2008It comprises of experiential research to identify what hinders and helps achieve recovery and aims to help to put recovery at the heart of mental health ...
Posted: - 16 Jul 2008 at 12:09pm


Literature: -


Rufas May Psychotic Experience and Recovery

Rufus May: Understanding
Psychotic Experience &
Working Towards Recovery

 

Art of Recovery

Art of Recovery: A Pocket Guide to Recovery from Mental Distress

 

Mental Breakdown and Recovery

The Madness of Our Lives: Experiences of Mental Breakdown and Recovery

 

Social Inclusion and Recovery


Social Inclusion and Recovery: A Model for Mental Health Practice - Julie Repper & Rachel Perkins

 

 

" I find that the greatest thing in the
world is not so much where we stand, as
in what direction we are moving.

To reach the port of heaven, we must
sail sometimes with the wind and
sometimes against it - but sail we must,
not drift or lie at anchor."

Oliver Windall Holmes

 



While we can't change the direction
of the wind.
We can learn to adjust our sails !!



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