Making Sense of Mental Health: A Practical Approach through Lived Experience [Paperback]

Mental health difficulties bring us face to face with our vulnerability as human beings, and after two years of struggling with Covid-19 concerns about mental health worldwide have never been higher.What is often missing from these discussions is the most valuable resource of all  the personal accounts of those with lived experience of mental health difficulties. Making Sense of Mental Health is centered on hours of in-depth interviews with adults coping with mental health issues. The author follows their journeys from the origin of their distress to their lowest moments to eventual recovery and a sense of moving on. These lived experiences show how in times of crisis people can move forward amidst the chaos, vulnerability and uncertainty of mental health problems.There are no quick fixes or miracle cures to serious mental health issues. This book shows that what works is whatever helps an individual make sense of what is happening to them. Mental health difficulties can best be treated by listening carefully to the stories of those who have lived through them, and then as a society finding a way to ascribe meaning to the complex reality of mental health.Mental health difficulties can best be treated by understanding the experiences of those who have lived through them.There are no quick fixes or miracle cures to serious mental health issues. This book shows that what works is whatever helps an individual make sense of what is happening to them.A problem entwined with the human condition, mental health difficulties can best be treated by understanding the experiences of those who have lived through them, and as a society by finding a way to ascribe meaning to the complex reality of mental health.IE