Vaccine = time to live

ancestros, algunos de ellos

Juan Ramon Diaz Irigoyen y Clementina Guzman Lugo

Francisca Lugo Hernandez with Nestor J Galarza Diaz as a baby

Luis Guillermo Diaz y Silva

La profesión medica

la profesion medica es un llamado cuasi espiritual

Mental health recovery and the concept of total health concur

 The concept of recovery started with people with mental disorders that found that self-help and helping other was contributing to the professional care of their mental disorders. Then it evolve to the concept of total health to include people with no mental disorders but with problems of living and medical conditions. 

The primary objective of both paradigms is that quality life can be improved by several means, not only by professional health care.

The recovery topic of the week celebrates Veterans contribution to society

Weekly topic

Helping others by emphasizing  their strengths and talents

The mental health recovery movement or paradigm states that people with mental disorders improve their lives not only with psychiatric, psychological and social care but with the promotion of proved elements such as making

emphasis on the strengths and talents  of the person who suffers a mental disorder

A conversation between Pura Sobriedad and Recupero Seguro could go something like this.

Recupero starts the conversation.

-I have no idea why my therapist only asks me about my symptoms, about how I feel, about my medications and whether I am attending therapy sessions.

-Well, that is the usual or traditional way to find out if you are better or not. Do not dwelve on that much. It will not serve you well.

-I wish she would ask me about how my music class is going. I have learned a lot on the piano and that fills me with joy. I also enjoy helping others who feel depressed.

-It will be a matter of time. Just tell your therapist about your music...also about the poems that you are writing. I read the last one about how children think about their parents and I liked it a lot.
Next session tell your therapist you do more than suffer symptoms.

(Pura has been a supportive person to many people with mental disorders at least since 1994 when I discovered her working as a volunteer in the alcoholism clinic. She has continued to help and has learned much about other models of suffering like bipolar illness and post traumatic stress disorder. Recupero is a patient in a large healthcare system. Recupero is not his real name but a pseudonym. Such is Pura Sobriedad too.  Recupero is now an employee whose job is to provide support through his own example to other people to suffer mental disorders. He has been doing a great job according to the director of the peer support training program).

We all can grow. Todos podemos crecer.

Somewhere along the way

It's a thin line betweeen Love and Hate
and somewhere along the way those lines became blurred.

Somewhere we lost touch with our own reality.

Our Dreams suddenly became nightmares that torment us.

What once was positive becomes negative due to the fact that those

lines have now become blurred.

Our Vision becomes Foggy and Faint;

our thoughts soon follow like distant memories of the past.

We become slaves enchained in a mental prison that seems almost

impossible to break free from.

Hope and Faith seem all but lost, Friends and Family seem all but

gone. Pain and suffering has taken the place of happiness and joy.

Somewhere along those Blurred lines, we forgot to Love ourselves, we

forgot all the Beautiful things we can do, and we forgot how

BEAUTIFUL WE STILL ARE!!!

Somewhere along the way we forgot.......


With permision.  By LMP      April 2014   San Juan