There are more recovery stories from such mental illnesses like schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder and other unnamed ones than you might think. The truth that continues to ring out with all of these stories is that each person has to find their own path.
For example, there is a lady who, as a child, was abused in everyway possible. Her hope and desire was that when she grew up she would be more in control of how people treated her. What she found out was that it was her behavior she had to control.
She wanted her children to know only love and acceptance. Her fear was that she would enlist the wrong person to help her with her unacceptable behavior. She was afraid to tell anyone how she was treating her children, so nothing changed for awhile.
Finally, a social worker was able to help her to trust. She now had a person of authority to guide her into healthy thinking and her life and her kid’s lives are getting better.
Another young lady’s mental illness began at 17. She had been depressed as a teenager but no one noticed. She was in college, but slept all day, only waking for meals. She went to a psychiatrist and was prescribed antidepressant pills. After bouts of being suicidal she saw an orthomolecular psychiatrist that gave her niacin and vitamin C.
Although a sort of normalcy was in her life, in a few years some of the old symptoms came back. She found a doctor who prescribed a mild drug along with the vitamins and life became much more tolerable. Now she has received some financial aid and is learning how to budget and take care of herself.
In both these success stories the women found their own path for recovery. It is interesting to note that drugs played a minimal role in both cases.
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