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Mentally ill people deserve support regardless of whether or not they’re “trying” to recover.
We don’t give a fuck if someone is “anti-recovery”, they still deserve autonomy and basic respect.
Recovery looks different for anybody. Withholding support until someone performatively demonstrates that they’re making an effort towards some arbitrary standards is not support. That is coercion.
“Romanticizing your mental illness is anti-recovery”. I don’t care. People are allowed to find the light in their existence, mental illness and all. I’m not going to self-flagellate about how miserable my existence is for you. We have nothing to prove.
You do not owe your recovery to anyone else. Your recovery is your business. Nobody has the right to dictate what that looks like for you.
And if you’re not “trying” to recover? We still support you. You have the right to exist as you are, full stop. No conditions. No “as long as you’re trying to get better” bullshit.
You have the right to exist and take up space. You have the right to be loudly and proudly mad.
You cannot just decide when it’s okay for people’s autonomy to be stripped away from them. You cannot have anyone be the arbitrator of what recovery should look like or how people should deal with any mental health issues. You most certainly cannot use that vague understanding of “this is how
the freaksmentally ill people should behave” to restrict their right to make their own decisions
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