Tedx: What They Don’t Tell You About Mental Illness
What catches my attention most is when she attributes her IOP/Intensive Outpatient Program experience in a positive way. She banks on the effectiveness of her experience being that they could all come together and talk about a very human experience without judgements. In my interpretation, she is saying that her IOP experience helped because the stigma was left at the door.
Even more so though, greeted with all high functioning individuals, many being young adults like herself, she felt welcomed and relieved to be with those similar to herself. Trust, this won’t happen with just any IOP; only in a young adult setting or program can this happen. It’s so important we young people stick together!
