Consumer, Survivor and Ex-patient Services
Many Consumer/survivor/ex-patient organizations provide services for those labeled as having a mental disorder. A number of charities providing services are "consumer-led". There are self-help/mutual support groups and day centers or clubhouses. Staff with a lived experience are now being employed as peer support specialists within mental health teams.
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Famous quotes containing the words survivor and/or services:
“You’re looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it’s hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“O, the difference of man and man!
To thee a woman’s services are due.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)