ABSTRACT
Families Healing Together helps families to understand and cope with the complicated experience of extreme distress, psychosis, and psychiatric labeling. Traditionally, when someone in a family is given a psychiatric diagnosis, families are educated to understand the experience from a brain disease/medical perspective, and often aren’t given much else in terms of tools on how to heal and move forward as a family. In most families where disagreements around treatment arise, the problems are usually founded on secrecy, hiding, fear, and lack of connection. Some people are taking their prescribed medications, some are trying to come off medications, and some are painfully over-medicated; but these circumstances are not what Families Healing Together places specific attention on. People in the class discuss everything from orthomolecular treatment to electroconvulsive therapy, but Families Healing Together offers no medical advice.
