The Road to Recovery

What is Recovery?

For many people, the concept of recovery is about staying in control of their life despite experiencing a mental health problem. Read more from Mental Health Foundation here!

Recovery means different things to different people. People often talk about clinical and personal recovery. Personal recovery is about working towards something that is important to you.

One of your recovery goals might be to be symptom free, or you may accept that you’ll still have symptoms. But you aim to cope with them better or make them less severe.

Treatment can often help towards recovery. But there are other options that you can try at the same time to help your recovery.

Recovery is a personal journey, but you might need the support of others.

Click here to read more about Recovery from Rethink Mental Illness. 

What is the Vocational Pathway?

The Vocational Pathway is part of the treatment pathways within Cumbria Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW).

The aim of the Vocational Pathway is to work with those who would like to return to education or work as part of the recovery. This pathway offers a flexible approach, which will designed around the person to explore and develop an individual’s aspirations around future work and education. This may lead to the individual also going along to take part in other services and activities within the local community.