Welcome to the NEON Trials!

A recovery story is a story told by a person about their journey of recovery.

In NEON we are using recovery stories which are first-person lived experience accounts, include elements of both adversity/struggle and of strength/success/survival related at least in part to mental health problems (i.e. is about recovery), and which refer to events or actions over a period of time (i.e. is a story).

We include stories where the positive aspects may be a very small part to a very large part of the story, and which might relate to such themes as escape (e.g. from damaging services, from a negative sense of self), enlightenment (e.g. transformation, making new sense of experiences), endeavour (e.g. ways of coping and managing) or endurance (e.g. "I'm still here", "I have survived").