- Recovery is a process, not a place.

- It is about recovering what was lost: rights, roles, responsibilities, decisions, potential and support, and discovering new potentials in life, and possibilities for growth.

- It is not about symptom elimination, but about what an individual wants, how he or she can get it, and how others can help and support them to get there.

- It is about rekindling hope for a productive present and a rewarding future, and believing that one deserves it!

- Recovery involves people having vision of the life they want to live, seeing and changing patterns, discovering symptoms can be managed and doing it, finding new ways and reasons, doing more of what works and less of what doesn't.

- Recovery is about reclaiming the roles of a 'healthy' person, rather than a 'sick' person.

- Recovery is about getting there.