Making a positive difference for those with mental illness

I know I'm blessed to have found total recovery from my particular illness, schizophrenia. Knowing the terrible suffering that so many still go through keeps me from just enjoying my freedom, without working hard to help others to reach a similar goal. Although I'd be foolish and wrong to suggest that all who read my blog will experience total healing, I believe that many will find greater peace as they put into practice the godly wisdom and practical insights I learned over the years I was ill. Because peace of mind, soul and spirit were the positives needed to bring recovery to my brain, I'll share how I personally overcame many of the fears, confusions and doubts I experienced. I'll also share 3 specific triggers that began my illness, and that of others, though the circumstances were different.
For those reading this who are partially recovered, but on medication and doing well, I don't recommend or promote discarding medications - that is only for you and your doctor/psychiatrist to decide. However, I do hope that some will read what helped me and, perhaps be surprised to find the reversal of the chemical changes that your brain needs.
Since I'm not an ordained pastor or a mental health professional, I need to state that, as author of this blog, I take no responsibility for any consequences from application of the information read here. I can only give the assurance that, all the suggestions and theories I write about, come from my personal faith experience and through studying different psychiatric publications - and only what helped lead to my healing. Even the medical and mental health professionals don't have all the answers for the growing epidemic of mental illnesses we see today. I hope to get them to listen to what I know worked for me and others that I have peer counselled and spiritually encouraged over the past 12 years. A year of psychiatry, courses and experience in counselling, and pastoral care under hospital chaplains, have all helped me to empathize with people who suffer pain of any kind. The desire to bring others to soul rest and a sound mind has become my greatest life's work at present. 
To begin this process, I have become a member of my city's Mental Health Advisory Committee. My hope is to change the opinion of many in the mental health community, who still believe that medication is a must for all, for life. Please pray that I'll be able to do this in a patient and loving manner.
If you have checked out my website, where I share about my book, In HIS WAY and HIS TIME, you'll know my story is endorsed by a Christian psychiatrist. My blogging will likely include much of what I wrote in the book, but in small increments, which may be easier for some to read and absorb.
Please join me on what may be your journey to wholeness.
Blessings,
Annie