Peers with lived experience have relevant learnings and insights from facing challenges similar to those encountered by others with SMI. Sharing these perspectives can inspire hope, empower, and inform people with SMI to live a fuller life and reach recovery. But a team effort between the person with SMI and their caregivers, typically close family, can best address mental illness. This relationship can often be quite challenging, largely due to communication issues created by a lack of understanding on both parts.
When we finally learned to understand each other in our shared challenge, we were able to communicate and collaborate to accelerate my recovery. Realizing there were few resources to help bridge the communication gaps between caregivers and loved ones was eye-opening. While there are peer-to-peer and family-to-family mental illness support programs, there are no peer-to-family approaches to our knowledge.
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