Mental Health Consumers Bill of Rights We also subscribe to and support the "Mental Health Consumers Bill of Rights". Mental Health Consumer organizations have declared: •     We need to be accepted and welcomed, respected and valued as human beings •     We deserve tolerance and hope •     We need to have our talents recognized •     We must set our own goals •     We should have hope for meeting realistic expectations •     We must learn that we can change, we can contribute, we can recover •     We need services for our basic needs, warm human contacts, independence, free choice and security in our environment •     We deserve equal pay for work of equal value and freedom from exploitation •     We need to be a partner in determining our treatment.  We are the most experienced about our illness and have a valid, even expert point of view •     We must participate in mutual information sharing with our providers •     We should be included in all aspects of treatment •     We deserve therapy relationships that aren't shattered by turnover •     We need therapeutic relationships, day programs, hospital and community care that empowers us, the mental consumers •     We must hold the system accountable for its performance •     We need to set our own limits •     We need to be free of intimidation and coercion about our drug/treatment options •     We have a right to be assertive, the right to voice our opinions without retaliation •     We have a right to choose, a right to say no, a right to be "non-compliant" about drug/treatment options we disdain •     If we fail, let us fail but don't let the mental health system fail us.

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