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Its important to me because helping you helps me. Helping someone else makes me feel good, and its part of my recovery. To help someone else keeps me right where i need to be cause i learn from your experiences, and you learn from mine. Leah, im coming back to you with the question of where does one house a peertoPeer Services . What organizational settings are appropriate for peertopeer . Its so diverse, i mean it can, there are peer support groups actually in public State Hospitals. Thats one location. They are sometimes their own peerrun organizations, and the National Empowerment center really highlights the work of these peerrun organizations that are creating their own services through a mixture of, they might receive some federal funding, some state funding, but operate relatively independently. So, you might ....
And as a matter of fact, i suspect that now both systems are dealing with the Mental Health is also has cooccurring conditions, so you deal with Substance Use disorders, as well as right. As the Substance Use disorders also has, you know, people that suffer with cooccurring, as well. But when we come back, well continue to talk about peertopeer support. Well be right back. [music] peers are a really important part of recovery, regardless of where you are. So, any time you can relate to someone in the Recovery Process who has shared the same experiences, whether thats an experience in jail or an experience in the military, these are important ways in which people can engage with each other. And the Recovery Process ....
They go through, and its ok. Its ok to feel bad. Its ok for you to wake up that day and not feel as good as you did the day before. And thats ok, and ill be there for you. And in turn, they do the same for me. When im going through tough times, the clients know that, and theyll call me, how you doin . You know, you teach them that its ok to feel. Its ok. And the only way that you can do that is to show them that you feel, too. Now that im in school, to get my ged, i eventually want to go to school and be in some kind of peer support like you do. Ok. Now that ive come through the pain and the anguish on the other side, ive grown because of it. Now its like its important to me to help someone else. Its important to me because helping you helps me. Helping someone else makes me feel good, and its part of my recovery. To help someone else keeps me right where i need to be cause i learn from your experiences, and you learn from mine. Leah, im coming back to you with the question of where do ....