Roger Smith

Mood & Recovery Researcher, Educator and Author

Why Stop Paddling / Start Sailing?

I wrote Stop Paddling / Start Sailing to help mental health professionals understand a particular aspect of recovery relating to losing and regaining control. The book led to research opportunities, training, more writing...

Recovery from bipolar disorder

Thirty years since my first involvement with mental health services and thirteen years since receiving a bipolar diagnosis, I am wondering what exactly it was I recovered from. Was it an anxiety disorder, extreme stress, a mood disorder, a chemically induced psychosis... or are all these things just so similar that it does not matter any more?

Can anyone claim to be fully recovered after being a patient for so long and taking so much medication? Research seems to indicate that it is in fact OK to claim to be recovered from any kind of poor mental health providing we remember what it is that keeps us well and we keep doing those essential things.

Mission statement 2009-2010> stop paddling bipolar recovery

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Education includes:

~WRAP Facilitator & MHFA Instructor - Care Services Improvement Partnership

~Mental health involvement & researcher training - Rethink

~Mental health involvement worker training - Mental Health Foundation

~Stress advice qualifications - Glasgow Caledonian University
~SMTP Bipolar Facilitator - MDF the Bi-Polar Organisation

~Computer Studies HNC

~Chemistry BSc

Objectives include:

~Mental health recovery training through systems such as WRAP, In-Sight and Mood Mapping

~Challenging conventional thinking on causes of stress related health problems

~Creating environments where people in-recovery can flourish

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