What would you like your younger/current self/someone else to know or understand that you didnt quite know or understand before you took this class?

Following Patricia Deegan, what if you wrote a loving letter to your younger self (current self or someone else) detailing what youve learned over the course of the semester that has been helpful to your recovery process?

Your letter should highlight three key insights gleaned from the course materials.

The following questions may help to guide your inquiry process; however, you need not address them all:
Who/What has most impacted your learning this semester? How so? Who/What has helped to clarify, expand, and/or challenge your assumptions and beliefs about your health struggles and/or the struggles of others? How so? Which course concepts have been beneficial to you, and why? What would you like your younger/current self/someone else to know or understand that you didnt quite know or understand before you took this class?

Be specific in your letter! Dont simply say, for example, that youve learned something valuable about SIV. Tell me specifically what youve learned, and then specify how this has been helpful to you.
(I am using the word recovery in the way that Deegan uses it; as a way to see your illness as a journey of discovery). Keep the focus on your own attitudes, beliefs and responses.

CONCEPTS TO USE:
shame
stigma/stigmatized
silence
self-inflicted violence (addiction)
spiritual hunger

With the provided sources, explore your addictive behaviours, by analyzing the environement you grew up in and ultimatelly filling a “void” with something to feel good.

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