The Lived Experience in Mental Health

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This text highlights individuals' own lived and felt experience, in order to share expertise about mental health problems. Looking at five common mental health states - anxiety, depression, mood extremes, states of altered reality and impaired cognition - the book also addresses the experience of care offered by health and social services and the impact of other people's responses. Drawing on personal narratives from a range of sources, this text foregrounds the voices of experts by experience, relates those voices to the academic literature and emphasises the importance of person-centred care and participation by services users in their own care.