The article shows myths about Mental health recovery and prove its falseness with facts.

These article identified the myths and the facts behind it
A mental illness diagnosis is forever, Mental illness makes you violent or dangerous, Mental illness only happens to the “weak”, Talking about suicide encourages suicide attempts, Successful people don’t have mental illnesses, Therapy is only for “crazy” people.
But all of these was denied by the facts
in which complete recovery from mental illness is possible people with mental illnesses can recover and live long and healthy lives. the vast majority of people with a mental illness have *no* desire to hurt others. Most people with mental illness are not violent and only 3%–5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness. In fact, people with severe mental illnesses are over 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population. Mental health is not a sign of weakness, also people with mental health problems are just as productive as other employees they have no problem in case of productivity as people thinks. People with mental health problems doing great in their life accomplished many successes and there are many examples proving that.
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