Taking the First Step

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“…Some young people feel that the recovery experience lead them to mature or make essential changes in their social relationships 195,196,198 . Psychosis can also provide new perspectives on life and relationships, including insights into one's life history 183 , increased empathy towards others 94,124,172 , or a rebalancing of life's priorities 56,101,169 : "I have more empathy for others and have a deeper understanding of what the human body is capable of. These components that make up my reality, to me, are the essence of life" 66 .…”

Section: Recovery Language Focuses On What the Person Can Do; I Had T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…During the chronic stage of psychosis, individuals often report feeling more optimistic about the future or believing that the worst is now behind them 47,[57][58][59]61,62,78,91,94,95,101,124,129,150,170,177 (see Figure 5): "After more than 40 years of psychosis, I can now say, I feel better than I have ever felt in my life" 95 . Individuals may also report feeling more satisfied with their occupational activities than before 47,49,50,59,62,78,82,91,101,112,129,133,173,177,180,181 (see Figure 5).…”

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“…However, a sense of grief and loss for the old self and the life before the disorder can still persist 124,133,150,168,175,184 : "Though I am working again, I have a pervading sense of loss about my life. This illness has affected all aspects of how I perceive myself and how others perceive me" 184 .…”

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“…The self-referential experiences are frequently associated with grandiose delusions 49,57,60,79,89,91,104,124 ("To feel like I have everyone following me around, whether it's negative or positive, that alone is a force of power… knowing that you can influence people's mind in the right way" 144 ), or with Truman-like 49,72 delusions 85,145 ("I deduced that I had been on a secret TV show all of my life, similar to the Truman Show" 49 ) (see Figure 3).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics

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Psychosis is the most ineffable experience of mental disorder. We provide here the first co‐written bottom‐up review of the lived experience of psychosis, whereby experts by experience primarily selected the subjective themes, that were subsequently enriched by phenomenologically‐informed perspectives. First‐person accounts within and outside the medical field were screened and discussed in collaborative workshops involving numerous individuals with lived experience of psychosis as well as family members and carers, representing a global network of organizations. The material was complemented by semantic analyses and shared across all collaborators in a cloud‐based system. The early phases of psychosis (i.e., premorbid and prodromal stages) were found to be characterized by core existential themes including loss of common sense, perplexity and lack of immersion in the world with compromised vital contact with reality, heightened salience and a feeling that something important is about to happen, perturbation of the sense of self, and need to hide the tumultuous inner experiences. The first episode stage was found to be denoted by some transitory relief associated with the onset of delusions, intense self‐referentiality and permeated self‐world boundaries, tumultuous internal noise, and dissolution of the sense of self with social withdrawal. Core lived experiences of the later stages (i.e., relapsing and chronic) involved grieving personal losses, feeling split, and struggling to accept the constant inner chaos, the new self, the diagnosis and an uncertain future. The experience of receiving psychiatric treatments, such as inpatient and outpatient care, social interventions, psychological treatments and medications, included both positive and negative aspects, and was determined by the hope of achieving recovery, understood as an enduring journey of reconstructing the sense of personhood and re‐establishing the lost bonds with others towards meaningful goals. These findings can inform clinical practice, research and education. Psychosis is one of the most painful and upsetting existential experiences, so dizzyingly alien to our usual patterns of life and so unspeakably enigmatic and human.

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“…Indeed, narratives published in Schizophrenia Bulletin are not simply and spontaneously produced for the clinical professionals who are the journal’s primary audience, but produced in collaboration with them. Many authors give explicit acknowledgement to the psychiatrists who have helped support the pieces to publication (“Taking the First Step”), and in an article which also, somewhat curiously, appeared in the space usually assigned to First Person accounts, Rudnick and colleagues provide a step-by-step guide for professionals seeking to help facilitate this. The collaboration between a ‘content’ expert (the person with schizophrenia) and a ‘process’ expert (the person with experience in the publication of scholarly work) they suggest has five steps: establishing a relationship; clarifying the themes and structure; writing, revision and submission.…”

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Rethinking “Patient Testimony” in the Medical Humanities: The Case of Schizophrenia Bulletin‘s First Person Accounts

Woods¹

2013

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The Lived Experiences of Family Members and Carers of People with Psychosis: A Bottom-Up Review Co-Written by Experts by Experience and Academics

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Informal caregivers of individuals affected by psychotic disorder can play a key role in the recovery process. However, little research has been conducted on the lived experiences of carers and family members. We conducted a bottom-up (from lived experience to theory) review of first-person accounts, co-written between academics and experts by experience, to identify key experiential themes. First-person accounts of carers, relatives, and individuals with psychosis were screened and discussed in collaborative workshops involving individuals with lived experiences of psychosis, family members, and carers, representing various organizations. The lived experiences of family members and carers were characterized by experiential themes related to dealing with the unexpected news, the search for a reason behind the disorder, living with difficult and negative emotions, dealing with loss, feeling lost in fragmented healthcare systems, feeling invisible and wanting to be active partners in care, struggling to communicate with the affected person, fighting stigma and isolation, dealing with an uncertain future, and learning from one’s mistakes and building resilience and hope. Our findings bring forth the voices of relatives and informal carers of people with psychosis, by highlighting some of the common themes of their lived experiences from the time of the initial diagnosis and throughout the different clinical stages of the disorder. Informal carers are key stakeholders who can play a strategic role, and their contributions in the recovery process merit recognition and active support by mental health professionals.

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Taking the First Step

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The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics

The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom‐up review co‐written by experts by experience and academics

Rethinking “Patient Testimony” in the Medical Humanities: The Case of Schizophrenia Bulletin‘s First Person Accounts

The Lived Experiences of Family Members and Carers of People with Psychosis: A Bottom-Up Review Co-Written by Experts by Experience and Academics

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