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Tell us your views on the 10 guiding principles of recovery? What do you like about the principles, and what changes do you suggest?

Update Recovery is Holistic to include health and wellness of mind, body,and spirit.

Please add getting proper nutrition, exercise, and natural healing approaches. It’s been shown that toxicity from chemicals, nutrient deficiencies, food allergys, imbalances such as digestion and hormonal can cause “mental symptoms" eating more raw living foods and detoxing can improve/eliminate "mental health symptoms"

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      • AnonymousAnonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        My son was in the mental hospital and had a closet full of holistic foods and nuts. He seemed to be the only one not gaining weight on Zyprexia. None of the doctors would acknowledge that during our team meetings...

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