2018 Recovery Essay Award Winners Archives

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How to Write a Healing Story by Author Cameron Shenassa

I have a student who is failing my class. He wants to be writer, but he comes to me and tells me that he can’t write because he is depressed. He is wearing paja...

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Losing My Words by Author Evelyn Krieger

If recovery means you are no longer sick, or even that you are simply functioning again, then perhaps I have recovered.

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Being the Lie by R.J. Roberts

Everyone in rehab has a very serious neck injury. It’s the hardest injury for doctors to accurately diagnose, even with modern MRIs and cat scans, the neck is ...