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Housing First Workers listen and then, except give people what they need (a house, love and money), they do nothing. They wait in wonder. People with lived experience know what is best for them. Their desire for prosperity and dreams of a bright future are no different from those of people without lived experience.
We need to realize that the various expressions of suffering that we today refer to as mental illness, or even more cynically as mental illness, are actually functional reactions to difficult and overwhelming life situations.
Here I want to share my story, which deals with great pain in life, and the path I have followed over several decades where I now seem to have come out on the other side of the tunnel.
The Front for the Liberation of the Insane intends to establish neighborhood centers for misfits, where people with problems can find help from people who have gone through or are going through similar experiences.
The narrow focus of the biomedical model which focuses too heavily on illness and chemical imbalance theory ignores other major contributing factors including trauma and social factors related to a person’s well-being.