Articulate consumer and survivor inclusion and leadership in all SAMHSA initiatives as a priority!
Unlike the President's Freedom Commission Report (2003) where consumer, survivor and family inclusion, voice and leadership was stated as a goal, the SAMHSA strategic initiatives are void of this important perspective. Let's not marginalize this very important group of experts and include them into the SAMHSA strategic initiatives. Make this a stated affirmation!
Helga Luest
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Peter Delos
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I vote for consumer/peer managed recovery, and community based groups giving care with recovery goals and models. Small community based care wastes the least money and does the most good.
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J. Dosick
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There's still a profound culture of tokenism going on at almost all levels of the mental health system - a token "consumer" on a panel, in social service programs, PACT teams, etc. This practice is outdated, disempowering, and dismissive of the basic human dignity everyone deserves and needs.
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michael
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people who don't like their medications will stop taking them. It is essential that people have prescribers who are willing to work with them on finding acceptable solutions.
People have a right to make their own choices and should not be forced to accept any treatment
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Kimberly Barton
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I vote for peer-counseling and peer-managed respite and treatment centers
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Marylou Verano commented
This is an imperative for fair treatment of those labeled with mental illness.
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Kimberly Barton
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I vote for further efforts to initiate non pharmaceutical based treatment options.
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drjz
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Consumers need to be included in any decision regarding the administration of potent anti-psychotic drugs and the clear right to refuse without an implied threat from the diagnosing authority.
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Athar Yawar
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Users' voices are valuable.
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Anonymous
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Where does all the money go? More is spent on salaries and management than ever gets to the mental health consumer - it is impossible to get an answer from any of the 'official' organizations at the state or national level about the money - the mental health consumer is just a conduit for unending dollars going to organizations that exist to 'help' mental health - no one will state exactly how many individuals are in a program and what that program costs to run - because it is shameful, shameful what is going on in the name of mental health - many of us are not fooled - just trying to make it.
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Kimberly Barton
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I am voting in favor of voice and inclusion of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors and for bringing an end to forced outpatient drugging.
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Lynne D
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SAMHSA should always include non-pharmaceutical and non-forced options in mental health.
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William Robiner
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Further exploration and support of non-pharmaceutical options in mental health should be a top priority for SAMHSA.
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Dally M. Sanchez
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Peer support and self-help should be viewed on par with the medical model alternative, and not viewed as a "questionable 'Alternative'" to the medical model. Historically and through-out the world it has been shown that people who engage in peer support and self-help tend to do better and recover easier due to the fact that people need each other for support and community inclusion, to share experiences and heal together from the traumatic events that may have happened in their lives. It also provides validation for our very real experiences and allows us to know that we are not alone in our struggles. Only allowing for and offering the medical model of "treatment" is a disservice to the community by not letting other proven methods of healing into the milieu and criminal when if people choose to seek out other forms of healing, being punished for it with forced treatment or coersion. It is an injustice to limit people's personal choices and not to give them all the information neccessary for an informed choice of treatment and venue.
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Katherine M.
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agreed - consumer and survivor inclusion is necessary in all SAMHSA initiatives-no decisions without representation....
like our country was built on!
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Katherine M.
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agreed - consumer and survivor inclusion is necessary in all SAMHSA initiatives-no decisions without representation....
like our country was built on!
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Deborah Marshall
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articulate consumer and survivor inclusion is necessary in all SAMHSA initiatives-no decisions about us without us!
Forced Outpatient Drugging-NO -
Survivor
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End the brutal forced drugging of bodies and brains that have never been proven diseased by any real physician but merely labeled so based on the hypothesis of quacks called 'psychiatrists'. Bodily integrity is a human right, and there is a special place in **** for those who violate the sanctity of another's body. SAMHSA is duty bound and morally bound to give survivors of this life destroying brutal system a say.
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Dally M. Sanchez
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Peer support and self-help should be viewed on par with the medical model alternative, and not viewed as a "questionable 'Alternative'" to the medical model. Historically and through-out the world it has been shown that people who engage in peer support and self-help tend to do better and recover easier due to the fact that people need each other for support and community inclusion, to share experiences and heal together from the traumatic events that may have happened in their lives. It also provides validation for our very real experiences and allows us to know that we are not alone in our struggles. Only allowing for and offering the medical model of "treatment" is a disservice to the community by not letting other proven methods of healing into the milieu and criminal when if people choose to seek out other forms of healing, being punished for it with forced treatment or coersion. It is an injustice to limit people's personal choices and not to give them all the information neccessary for an informed choice of treatment and venue.
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Dally M. Sanchez
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Peer support and self-help should be viewed on par with the medical model alternative, and not viewed as a "questionable 'Alternative'" to the medical model. Historically and through-out the world it has been shown that people who engage in peer support and self-help tend to do better and recover easier due to the fact that people need each other for support and community inclusion, to share experiences and heal together from the traumatic events that may have happened in their lives. It also provides validation for our very real experiences and allows us to know that we are not alone in our struggles. Only allowing for and offering the medical model of "treatment" is a disservice to the community by not letting other proven methods of healing into the milieu and criminal when if people choose to seek out other forms of healing, being punished for it with forced treatment or coersion. It is an injustice to limit people's personal choices and not to give them all the information neccessary for an informed choice of treatment and venue.
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Dally M. Sanchez
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Peer support and self-help should be viewed on par with the medical model alternative, and not viewed as a "questionable 'Alternative'" to the medical model. Historically and through-out the world it has been shown that people who engage in peer support and self-help tend to do better and recover easier due to the fact that people need each other for support and community inclusion, to share experiences and heal together from the traumatic events that may have happened in their lives. It also provides validation for our very real experiences and allows us to know that we are not alone in our struggles. Only allowing for and offering the medical model of "treatment" is a disservice to the community by not letting other proven methods of healing into the milieu and criminal when if people choose to seek out other forms of healing, being punished for it with forced treatment or coersion. It is an injustice to limit people's personal choices and not to give them all the information neccessary for an informed choice of treatment and venue.
