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Consumer Bill of Rights
- We need to be accepted and welcomed, respected and valued
as human beings
- We deserve tolerance and hope
- We need to have our talents recognized
- We must set our own goals
- We should have hope for meeting realistic expectations
- We must learn that we can change, we can contribute, we can
recover
- We need services for our basic needs, warm human contacts,
independence, free choice and security in our environment
- We deserve equal pay for work of equal value and freedom
from exploitation
- We need to be a partner in determining our treatment. We
are the most experienced about our illness and have a valid,
even expert point of view
- We must participate in mutual information sharing with our
providers
- We should be included in all aspects of treatment
- We deserve therapy relationships that aren't shattered by
turnover.
- We need therapeutic relationships, day programs, hospital
and community care that empower us, the mental health consumers
- We must hold the system accountable for its performance
- We need to set our own limits
- We need to be free of intimidation and coercion about our
drug/treatment options.
- We have a right to be assertive, the right to voice our opinions
without retaliation
- We have a right to choose, a right to say no, a right to
be "noncompliant" about drug/treatment options we
disdain.
If we fail, let us fail but don't let the mental
health system fail us!
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