Joanne Smith argues that recovery from mental health struggles rarely happens in one dramatic moment. Most people can't pinpoint when they felt better, and progress often looks like small, daily shifts that are hard to notice while they're happening.
That was one path I could have continued to be on, but I chose a path that has a— that takes me to a much, much better place, a place that I want to be at. So yeah, that's, um, hopefully that, that kind of helps you to see that You just don't want to be using your symptoms as a check on how you're doing and a measure of how you're doing. Because many, many people share with me that they genuinely just got to a point where they do not know the moment when things got better. They do not even know the moment that they were recovered. I've asked so many people How did you know when you were recovered? And they go, I don't know, I don't know the exact moment, it was just one day I just noticed that's not really bothering me anymore, that's not really a problem. And they've kind of just, it's been so natural and so organic that it wasn't a big magic moment.
