I think that terminology really just lends to harmful and futile actions towards/against ppl living who have a/several mental illnesses, if that makes sense? I think if anything, the term recovery should be used to describe the process that a mentally ill person undergoes when they are unlearning internalized ableism. Because in my experience with depression and anxiety, there are no cures, just coping methods. And those coping methods aim to be as effective as possible so that I can keep functioning in a society that demands I have no mental illness, or else I labelled am broken or at a disadvantage, and am to blame for these aforementioned things. Recovery in the context that it is so often used puts the onus on mentally ill persons to make themselves better, to submit to/attain the standards set by ableist society as what is most acceptable for the highest volume/quality of individual production (within capitalism, for example). I would only be comfortable with the term recovery if it were exclusively linked with the actions of people who have mental illness recovering their agency and dignity from a society that constantly denies it from us, while also having the term “recovery” holding those oppressors and oppressive systems accountable for the harm they’ve exacted on people with mental illness.
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