Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Addictions and recovery

Mental health

I know this project's name doesn't include mental health, but its generally agreed that a huge number of those with addiction and recovery issues have a co-occurring disorder, thus the two are always co-addressed. thus, so should this projects focus be co-addressed, to mirror best practices, as most of the articles focused on 1 area will touch on the other.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:59, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Self-Identifying as having a mental health issue

Template:User warning-mentalhealth

WikiProject Addictions and recovery is currently experiencing mental health issues, which may affect their Wikipedia editing in various ways. They may have difficulty with:

altered perception when making editorial judgements, determining consensus, or reading Wikipedia discussions addressed to them;
reduced availability on Wikipedia during times when they experience issues;
limited capacity to respond to other Wikipedians via talk page or email messages in a timely fashion, to participate in conflict resolution, or to complete their usual workload of Wikipedia tasks.

Thank you for your understanding.

I think this template, Template:User warning-mentalhealth is misrepresentative of MI's affect on work, and i dont like how it assumes that people living with MI are going to be less productive. I know its only placed on a users own page, but its still weird. anyone else think it should be deleted?Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People self-identifying as...

The following categories, Category:People self-identifying as alcoholics, and Category:People self-identifying as substance abusers, were deleted last month. I understand the reasoning around BLP, but i disagree. I dont know if this can be discussed in a deletion review, as the deletion process seems to have been followed properly. I created Category:People self-identifying as problem gamblers, which i suppose should also be deleted. should we then delete categories for people with bipolar disorder, or depression, for the same BLP reasons? Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:38, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Inclusion of Courage International, Homosexuals Anonymous and LDS Family Services

All three of these organizations credit the twelve-step approach as part of their program. Should they be included in this project? - Scarpy (talk) 22:59, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Potentially LDS Family Services. I'm not seeing how the other two relate to addictions and recovery. As far as I know, homosexuality isn't considered an addiction by any reputable medical or governmental body. Sizeofint (talk) 01:44, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Sizeofint. Yes, Mormons, no to the other two. —PermStrump(talk) 01:56, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

*Only if the Mormon one is a 12-step program for drugs and alcohol, not if it's conversion therapy, which, now that I'm reading about the other 2 organizations, I'm now reading the use that for gay people too.[1] —PermStrump(talk) 05:16, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]