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Welcome to Cured: The Memoir
Welcome to the exclusive serialization of Cured! The premise of Cured is simple: We can recover from mental illness, even serious mental illness. No one…
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🎧 The Story About Recovery You're Not Supposed to Hear | Prologue
What we talk about when we talk about mental health. And what we don't talk about: recovering.
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🎧 What You Wanted to Say in that Five-Minute News Segment | Chapter 1
May 13, 2022: The day I first wanted to announce that I was cured of serious mental illness.
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🎧 Are Mental Disorders Chronic? | Chapter 2
Mental health professionals who don’t believe in recovery are said to suffer from the clinician’s illusion. They often don't see those who recover, only…
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🎧 How You Tell Your Story | Chapter 3
How you tell your story matters. Anyone with a psychiatric diagnosis has an illness narrative running in their head.
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🎧What Your Emotions Say When You Aren't Listening | Chapter 4
The American Psychological Association (APA) describes an emotion as “a complex reaction pattern involving experiential, behavioral, and physiological…
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🎧Rebuilding Your Relationships | Chapter 5
I never thought talking about my psychiatric diagnoses and symptoms was being negative; my diagnoses were my life—they were me.
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🎧You Start Down the Wrong Path | Chapter 6
Two myths can prevent recovery from mental illness. One says that mental disorders are primarily biological and genetic; the other that they’re caused…
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🎧You Think You Can Do It Alone | Chapter 7
Group therapy has to go. That’s the first mistake I make on the wrong path to mental health recovery. Stopping therapy seems to make sense. If someone…
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🎧You Stay on the Wrong Path | Chapter 8
Psychiatric medications have harmed and helped many people and may help many as they work toward recovery. Demonizing psychotropic drugs and shaming…
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🎧You Discover What It Means to Be Self-Directed | Chapter 9
The right treatment depends on self-directed care. Since the 1970s, the Recovery Movement has focused on patients’ rights.
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🎧Your Happy, Stable Romantic Relationship | Chapter 10
One of the most potent cultural myths is that having a partner makes a person happy, healthy, and fulfilled.
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