There are a lot of people investing a lot of energy in measuring individuals with recovery measures. They say so and so is more recovered, and so and so is less recovered. There are terms like "Advanced Recovery". I believe this to be an error in judgement, because everyone has recovery skills and saying someone is more recovered than another just sounds silly. Recovery is non-linear. The person with a history of alcohol addition, is only one drink away from returning. The person with a mental health condition may find themselves in the throws of trauma or a former state, through events that have nothing to do with recovery. I firmly believe that we are beings that contain all that we need to be whole, something introduced to me recently. I firmly believe what we should be measuring individuals on is not recovery, but actually wellness in its 8 dimensions: http://www.samhsa.gov/wellness-initiative/eight-dimensions-wellness. We have a high degree of variance here and that is where the real telling outcomes lie. There are wellness skills that people can learn and there are external factors that impact our wellness that we can work on. The area seems rich and fruitful in measuring how effective programs actually are. Wellness also goes right to the heart of the disparity that we are living in the middle of. Statistics say we die 2 decades earlier than our peers, when we measure and try to impact wellness, we are at the heart of where true change must occur. When we talk about wellness we are looking at a measure pivotal to all people and there is a sense of equality in that to me.
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