My strong belief is that a person can only talk about their experience taking or not taking medication as a factor in their recovery.
A Peer Specialist should not tell their patient to stop taking medication. They should not give advice on how to wean yourself step-by-step off medication.
Any Peer Specialist who is telling their clients to discontinue medication is in effect practicing medicine without a license.
In most states in the U.S. only an M.D. can regulate the use of a patient’s medication or determine that a patient doesn’t need medication.
I’ve been in remission from schizophrenia for over 28 years precisely because I take medication. I credit this as the number-one factor that enabled me to go to graduate school obtain an M.S. and find a career I love.
For others they might not have to take medication. Everyone is different and what their body needs or doesn’t need is going to be different.
To recap: a Peer Specialist should not be practicing medicine without a license.
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