Okay, so: Peer Support is a thing.

It's not widely known, and it's IMPORTANT,

A Peer Support Specialist reaches across, not down. Non-hierarchical-- that's literally a requirement spelled out in the job description.

We close the liminal space between "patient" and "well person". We bridge the gap between the person receiving care and their therapist/doctor etc. We're the people you want knocking on the door when you're having a major personal crisis-- you know, instead of the people with guns. We've lived through our own crises/trauma/illness/addiction/etc, and we know how it actually feels.

This isn't just some cute hand-holding role. It's a crucial part of a larger movement to integrate and humanize-- frankly, to TRANSFORM--healthcare. That's the agenda, straight up. And I even get to fucking SAY THAT out loud.

And how do we enact this subversive scheme? By using empathy to relate to people, while helping empower them to determine and work on their OWN damn recovery goals, without judging.

Trying to "fix" people leads to burnout. Coercion and punishment have diminishing returns-- you can't force anybody to get better by kicking them when they're already down. Stigma has done massive damage. So we slow down, give an actual shit, and walk WITH people while they learn to fish, instead of beating fish over their heads, get it?

How's that for revolutionary.

#praxis
#mentalhealth
#mentalillness
#trauma
#traumainformedcare
#peersupport
#peergroups
#recovery
#resilience
#supportgroups
#peersupportspecialist

Die größte #Freiheit ist die Freiheit zu #Selbstkritik.
Die nächst größte die Freiheit, (seine) #Peergroup(s) kritisieren zu können.
Ideologische und opportunistische Impulse regulieren/dominieren #Peergroups, die keine Mechanismen für #Kommunikationsreflexion installieren.

#Peergroups kommen mit Konditionierungsproblemen. Darin können sich nicht nur Seilschaften entwickeln, Peergroups können auch zu #Innovationsblockaden werden.
Sie neigen dazu, Außenseiter(meinungen) zu unterdrücken, zu #Machtsystemen zu werden und #Statushierarchien auszubilden.

Over the last two years I have put a lot of energy into a particular community at work: my peers. It has been incredibly rewarding for me. #peergroups https://www.daviddaly.me/2022/07/peer-groups-in-workplace.html /10