The Real Wealth of Portland Leads the Way In Moving Mental Health Recovery Forward
»» Rethinking Psychiatry Event May 13-14, 2011.
Due to Real Wealth’s core belief that our most important resource – our Real Wealth – is found in relationships, both with one another and with the planet earth, we have chosen to make “Rethinking Psychiatry: Creating a New Paradigm of Mental Health Care” one of our major campaigns. In so doing The Real Wealth of Portland continues to be instrumental in supporting the current national movement towards a more effective, holistic, humane and hopeful model of mental health care.
Real Wealth believes that the current “broken brain,” chemical imbalance model, that is used by the psychiatric and pharmaceutical communities to pathologize many aspects of our human emotional and behavioral diversity, is in many cases depleting the real wealth of our human uniqueness, creativity, and life itself. While acknowledging that many of us have mental and emotional health challenges as we work to come to terms with the many extreme contradictions of living in this society, and that for some people medication works to help ease these challenges, we strongly oppose the idea that medication is the first and quite often the major tool for addressing our mental health concerns.
We invite you to join us in supporting our Real Wealth and in moving mental health recovery forward.