Mental Health and Illness: Understanding the Recovery-Oriented Practices

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Mental health and illness
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Mental healthcare and illness
Mental illness is a mental condition that impedes feelings, mood, capability and personal
thinking. To other individuals, the sickness disrupts the normal daily functions. The illness
usually diminishes the ability to cope with the normal imposition of life. Schizophrenia is one of
the solemn mental sicknesses. But the good news about it is that the person can recover from that
mental sickness. The illness can affect a person regardless of his or her age, religion or race.
Mental illness is not the outcome of upbringing or individual weakness. Many people who are
diagnosed with the disease, experience alleviation from the symptom through assertiveness to the
personal treatment plans (Prins, 2014).
Psychological and medication treatment like interpersonal and cognitive therapy with the
support of the community may be an aspect of the treatment plan and can assist in the recovery.
The other components plan includes, ready transportation, excess, sleep, diet and paid volunteer
activity contribute greatly to the affected person (Council, 2013). The main objective of this
paper is to address the following issues. First, the concept of life experience with mental illness
and health. National framework for the recovery-oriented outline of the major ideas on mental
recovery services. Lastly, the paper will illustrate how the health practitioners may implement
oriented practices with the examples from Sandy Jeff.
Recovery from mental illness requires more efforts than any interventions from the
medical professionals. The knowledge gathered is necessary and the understanding effective
procedures when dealing with the patient with the similar condition. The mental illness lived
experiences has attracted a lot of interest among the medical practitioners. The knowledge is
gathered from the people undergoing the mental illness or from the those who recovered from
the sickness. The recovered people share the stories through statements, life experience stories

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and can express their feeling in form of poetry. The poems and stories create the basis for
medical experts to understand the needs and specific interventions for individual persons. It's true
that about hundred people experience mental illness in the course of their lives. The highest
occurrence of the sickness appears at the teenage age. For instance, Sandy Jeff was 23 years old
when she was diagnosed with the schizophrenia. She faced 17 years of psychotic hell with
nothing happening. The individual with mental illness undergoes hardship of distress.
The family members should take the responsibility of their sick people. Many of the
people with mental disorders are faced with stigma and prejudice overwhelm with mental health
sickness. The challenges could have negative on the environment and relationships. Mental
illness is attributed to the very deep interventions in thinking that affect languages, senses and
self-perceptions. People with the mental complications face many challenges of self-realization
in their daily life. Thus, making them unable to cope with the daily chores like self-hygiene,
preparing meals and cooperating with the environment around them. The illness incorporates
psychotic experiences like hearing the voices and delusions. Sandy Jeff mind was always full of
phantoms and spooks that were further thrusting here into the miasmic chaos of blurred real life.
She found no purpose, reason and hope for life (Jeffs, & Leggatt,2014).
People living with mental sickness experiences the high level of stigmatization,
discrimination and minimal engagement rendering them a meaningless life. The community
around them fails to recognize their worthiness. Therefore, resulting in intimidation hence
indulge with other life threating activities like drug abuse (Arboleda & Stuart, 2012).
Sandy Jeff main purpose of writing was pivoted to have that purposeful life. But that
purpose was sometimes denied for people with mental disorder. Sane people will not employ
insane people since they are mentally ill. The community has withdrawn its support towards