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Peer Support VI Peer support is the offering of help and support based on personal experience. Self-help is part of recovery
The foundation of peer support is recovery.

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Peer support is the offering of help and support based on personal experience. For more information contact: Elise Padilla, MSW, MBA Director STAR Center NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness 3803 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 100 Arlington, VA 22203 Main: 703-524-7600 Self-help is part of recovery The foundation of peer support is recovery. Recovery is a journey based on the ideas of high expectations, hope, empowerment, self-determination, interdependence and critical thinking. Recovery is not an absence of symptoms or cravings, but a management of them in order to have an increasingly better quality of life. Recovery is knowing who you are and using your strengths to become all that you were meant to be. Peers share aspects of their story that help individuals feel less alone and experience a sense of hope. The relationship is important in helping individuals reduce their feelings of stigma and shame, which are often associated with having a diagnosis. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) NAMI is committed to recovery, peer support, expansion of consumer opportunities, and multicultural action to meet the needs of underserved communities.

Self-help is part of recovery

The foundation of peer support is recovery. Recovery is a journey based on the ideas of high expectations, hope, empowerment, self-determination, interdependence and critical thinking. Recovery is not an absence of symptoms or cravings, but a management of them in order to have an increasingly better quality of life. Recovery is knowing who you are and using your strengths to become all that you were meant to be.

Peers share aspects of their story that help individuals feel less alone and experience a sense of hope. The relationship is important in helping individuals reduce their feelings of stigma and shame, which are often associated with having a diagnosis.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)