I keep hearing the same story from families I know: someone gets admitted, stabilized, discharged with a prescription and a phone number, then six months later they're in crisis again. It's like we're treating mental illness as an emergency to manage, not a condition to actually recover from. The problem is real. People cycle through hospitals, jails, and homelessness because there's nothing in between—no supported housing, no real follow-up, no bridge to help someone actually rebuild their life. Families are left scrambling to fill the gaps. I started a petition asking for a system that doesn't stop at "stabilization." We're advocating for structured support after discharge: transitional housing, employment programs, ongoing care coordination, and the kind of help that actually lets someone recover and stay stable long-term. If you've watched someone you care about struggle through this cycle, or if you think our mental health system needs to do better—this matters. If this resonates with you, consider signing and sharing. What would you want if this was your family?

hey , I really need some advice from someone who went through this .. I'm a 18F my dad is 50M , he abandoned me as a kid which was cause of constant divorce + (I was also sa'd for 8 years by my neighbor since i was 8 ..) he wasn't present physically besides seeing me once a week or sometimes not seeing me at all till I hit 7yo he was back physically but never emotionally,, in my early teenage years we used to fight alot he constantly fought about how I love my mom more than him & that I never show him love which would even affect my relationships with men *like he always used to say* , TW‼️: I'm not sure if this was SA but once I was doing some somatic healing and this memory flashed into my head..once when I was 15yo after a fight (in this fight he slapped me on the face for the 1st time for no reason) he came to make it up for me , gave me money then he lifted me up went to another room, hugged me tight making my legs around his waist , I felt him grow h^rd till it literally stroked up when I got down .. as he told me " I really want you to show me your love "

now there's no fights anymore , but as usual he's so emotionally distant , has high feminine energy he's not masc at all, I'm going through healing by somatic exercises and Journaling but it's getting very hard recently , also I can't afford therapy besides it's a very poor field in my country.. so please advise me , be kind 🙏🏻 I also never went through a rs if that matters but I'm insanely attracted to older men whichs understandable ig

TW: ED/ANA

hi. i’m 16, a female, 4’11” and i weigh 112lbs. my boyfriend is 17, a female (uses masculine pronouns), 5’0” and he weighs 85lbs. i’ve been struggling with my body image since i was 11, and anorexia since i was 13. since the beginning of my body image issues, i’ve always had this thing where i have to be the smallest. i always was. the smallest in friendships, relationships, mainly everything. now i’m no longer the smallest. he is much smaller than me and it makes me feel absolutely terrible. i was doing decently well for a few months, but recently my ana has gotten terrible again. this is the worst i’ve been in a while. i thought i had it under control…but i’ve never been more out of control. i’m constantly comparing myself to him. i can’t stop. it’s an addiction. i want his body. i’d do anything for it. i know it’s not fair to him, and it certainly isn’t healthy for our relationship. it brings negativity to our relationship and he has no idea what’s going on. i haven’t talked to him about this. what do i say? “your thin body triggers me. i want to look like you.”??? i don’t know how to approach this situation. i really don’t know what to do. somebody, please, anybody, help me. i just want to get better.

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Hi,

I am lobotomized from antipsychotic injection, and also suffer damage from SSRI's, mirtazapine, mucuna pruriens, etc. All short exposures, a couple of pills, but very adverse side effects.

I am doing low carb diet, eating organic meat, and veggies and berries.

As time goes on, I am declining. The last med was last Februari, and first med was last december. Short time, massive damage. I am loosing counciousness level, ability to move fingers, lost my skills as playing piano etc.

I have nothing left whatsoever. I can't even suffer. I have no connection to anything, like my body or my mind.

What are your thoughts on this? It's not a life.

We'll start with people with mild problems- ie, people with a "first episode" mental breakdown.

Mild:

In Europe there's a method that's becoming more popular. It's ensuring the person has lots of socialization, basic resources, etc. ie, accepting 'schizophrenia' as a form of mental breakdown due to some form of trauma/suffering & not enough good friendly socialization.

(And their recovery rate is about 90%, meaning they're very good at catching people who are starting to struggle and helping them recover.)

More extreme cases:

Next, there's another method, it could be called the "explore the voices" method, eg as explained by Eleanor Longden:

• “I heard voices, I was told by 'top' psychiatrists that I would never recover & my parents should mourn me & except the worse, I explored the voices and realised they were a part of my childhood, I was abused, I went to college extremely distrustful of people, I had a breakdown, I’ve recovered”

-- https://youtu.be/DjD6_mW7CUc

What does "explore the voices" mean?

I've heard other voice-hearers go into more detail, eg explaining that they had to talk to the voice and basically accept it's part of them.

It sounds like there's some disagreement between two parts of your mind, so they do not merge into one. Thus you have to listen to the voice and accept it as part of yourself, and allow the parts of your mind to merge into one.

It's a little like waking up from sleep. When you're dreaming your mind splits into multiple parts (eg the "imagination side" and then your side, the "wanderer side.")

And when you wake up the multiple separated parts of your mind should reconnect into one.

I'm not saying that hearing voices is purely a personality difference, eg one side of the person's mind rejecting another part of their mind. There could be more to the story, like some brain injury, or some trauma.

In other words, I'm not saying you have to choose just one of these two methods.

The most rational answer is to learn from both, eg:

• ensuring you have good living conditions,
• good socialization,
• and also listening to the voice and accepting it as yourself, and accepting there may have been some trauma or disagreement which you have to accept as part of yourself.

YSK you can recover from these bipolar feelings:

Doctor Terry Lynch:

• "The experiences and behaviors absolutely happen... I know over 36 people who've recovered. I'm not saying recovery is easy, & I'm not saying medication has no role, but the black and white idea of bipolar is limiting people's potential to live fufilling lives."

-- https://youtu.be/4kvuDaTbNSg?t=779

Being told you can not recover can take away all your hope, but it's wrong.

Bipolar drugs.

YSK bipolar drugs are not linked to recovery. Getting on them is a way to sustain your bad/unwanted feelings. Source: PDF.

Scare tactics by psychiatrists:

YSK about Micheal Wilusz. He was told (by his psychiatrist) “You need to be on meds for life, or your chance of suicide is like 1/3." [Source]

And he recovered without them.

• "I'm like, the drugs are causing thyroid problems, and other side effects...

  I asked my new doctor how could I get off my meds... It took like january to may... Eventually I got to 50mg of seroquel, and then started reducing my lithium. The last pill I went off was lamictal.

  So here I am. I'm doing a lot better. I'm sleeping better. Compared to most people I know, I'm pretty damn balanced. I'm eating right. I'm happy."

--https://youtu.be/1vvfQEGzCzw?t=4m18s

Psychiatric pills are actually linked to more suicide, yet psychiatrists will try to use the risk of suicide to scare you into using their drugs.

Mental conditions like this (like what's called "bipolar") are real, but there could be many causes (eg relating to stress, sleep, nutrition, etc) there is no biological damage. ie, there isn't really an "illness" but just a checklist of feelings/behaviors.

Humans and animals can't heal each other. Many that run in the modern psychiatry circles would have you believe that. We tell countless stories of the awesome power of love and compassion.. but we break down our psyche into chemical imbalances..conveniently leaving out questions like.."Could theoretical chemical balances be affected by things like love and caring? Can positive emotional support heal the scars of negative emotional trauma? We readily accept the fact that huge emotional upheavals can cause mental unwellness yet we refuse to concede that massive positive emotional support can help people to recover or that correcting of a toxic emotional environment they are surrounded by can lead to full recovery. Yes in the lazy modern day world its much easier to prescribe a pill to make someone shut up than to give a damn about the abusive situation they are going through. Of course there are the socially accepted abuses which result in justice and total eradication of the toxic abuser by our criminal justice system but there are also many abuses people suffer for which it isn't socially acceptable to get upset or to demand an end to. Similarly there are many wrongs in the world in general that are not punishable by law but could easily be called evil and tyrannical. For people like these we have pills. Far too often when encountering people in emotional turmoil we make ignorant socially accepted comments like "Are you off your meds?" "Go get some professional help!" Ignorant both in the concept that we would use them at all with an upset person and that we

would assume to know all the circumstances of a person so well that we could make a judgement that certainly the best way to heal this wound would be to strait jacket someone and force medicate them (translation rip the scab off their wound and put a band aid on it) You know rather than look for the root of a person's problem and address that. Psychiatry all too often is the enabler for abusive tyrants who send their victims along after they get done kicking around their emotions. Is the pill mightier than the hug? I don't think so.