To me, recovery means being treated like a person not a patient. .. I [had] the poem below framed at work (I unfortunately loaned out and never got returned the book it was from).

To most HMO’s/MH Plans, I would say their idea of recovery is that the person goes unnoticed by the system — no selfish demands for expensive medications or treatments anymore from the person, no expensive hospitalizations calling attention to themselves, no contact with the system except the five minute appt. every three months to passively renew their prescription. In effect, what I would call someone whose spirit was broken they would call a “recovered mental patient.” Just my thoughts late at night.

Agnes Lintz, J.D.