There is no need to compare your path of healing or the things that bring about your healing to the path of someone else. Your healing will have its own design and it will not be exactly like anyone else's. As long as you believe you will heal and refuse to give up that belief, God will engineer circumstances to help. He will bring about the right medications, housing, doctors, therapists, school, and work. He'll bring everything you'll need for the healing of your mind.
You must help the process by pursuing the life you want. You may not know the kind of life you want when you're in the deepest throes of your illness. Set out towards something you dream of anyway and let God steer you. It will be given.
A great life takes effort to create, and coming out of mental illness takes tremendous mental effort. You will learn to create a new life, and discover what you truly want when you do the difficult mental work required to change.
What we want in life doesn't disappear because we're mentally ill. It remains inside and starts to surface as we progress along our path of healing. The life we most want to live is still in us. The illness we endure is like an agonizing birth process we must go through for this new and wonderful life. It is our prize as we start to live it, as we heal