“The Old Me Could Never Have Done That”: How People Give Meaning to Recovery Following Depression

Ridge, Damien; Ziébland, Sue

doi:10.1177/1049732306292132

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“…Although adherence to pharmacotherapy was widely perceived as a necessary and essential means for control of the symptoms and prevention of relapse (Liberman, Kopelowicz, Ventura, & Gutkind, 2002;Mansell, Powell, Pedley, Thomas, & Jones, 2010;McKay, 2010;Piat et al, 2009;Ridge & Ziebland, 2006;Schön, 2010;Shea, 2009), the way in which medication facilitates transformation of self-identity, and further acceptance of the limitations following SMI was not enlightened in the present study (Noiseux & Ricard, 2008;Spaniol, Wewiorski, Gagne, & Anthony, 2002). Thus, it may also be interesting to explore whether or not exists any relationship between selfperception during different phases of the illness and adherence to pharmacotherapy.…”

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confidence: 75%

“An Ongoing Struggle With the Self and Illness”: Α Meta-Synthesis of the Studies of the Lived Experience of Severe Mental Illness

Kaite

Karanikola

Merkouris

et al. 2015

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

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confidence: 75%

“An Ongoing Struggle With the Self and Illness”: Α Meta-Synthesis of the Studies of the Lived Experience of Severe Mental Illness

Kaite

Karanikola

Merkouris

et al. 2015

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

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“…One of the consequences of this universal pathogenic agent was madness. 8 A similar characterization of the causes of mental illness and the remedies that allow a return to well-being is described in a study by Ridge and Ziebland (2006) on representations of recovery from depression. 9 This association appears to be coherent with the Von Domarus principle, which Arieti considers effective in schizophrenic thought.…”

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Mental distress: Strategies of sense-making

Cardano

2010

Health (London)

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The irruption of severe mental distress into the life of an individual determines a deep biographical disruption. To cope with this crisis, individuals are involved in a laborious sense-making activity, through the composition of narratives intended to create a new link between past, present and future. This essay analyses the sense-making strategies that follow this dramatic experience through the comparison of four illness narratives composed by Italian participants. The narratives are selected from a broader textual corpus in a way that authorizes their connotation as 'flesh and blood' ideal types. These narratives illustrate three kinds of explanation for the outset of mental distress: the biomedical adopted by Vito; the spiritual-religious adopted by Marta; and the psycho-social adopted by Giacomo. Vito, Marta and Giacomo are still inside the story they are telling, and compose the events by observing them through the eyes of a patient, qualifying their diversity as a stigma. The fourth narrative is different, composed by Serena, a 'voices hearer' who comes to terms with her voices not by silencing them with drugs, but by accepting them as a charisma that has transformed her into a medium and, on final analysis, a balanced woman.

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“…For instance, some individuals who have been diagnosed with depression feel that it acted as a catalyst for change in their lives (Frank 1991;Schreiber 1996;Ridge and Ziebland 2006). In such individuals, depression serves a valuable role-acting as an indicator that something in the person's life has gone awry and, if so desired by the individual, should be changed.…”

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Is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Really a Disorder?

Browne

2014

Bioethical Inquiry

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Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) was recently moved to a full category in the DSM-5 (the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). It also appears set for inclusion as a separate disorder in the ICD-11 (the upcoming edition of the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems). This paper argues that PMDD should not be listed in the DSM or the ICD at all, adding to the call to recognise PMDD as a socially constructed disorder. I first present the argument that PMDD pathologises understandable anger/distress and that to do so is potentially dangerous. I then present evidence that PMDD is a culture-bound phenomenon, not a universal one. I also argue that even if (1) medication produces a desired effect, (2) there are biological correlates with premenstrual anger/distress, (3) such anger/distress seems to occur monthly, and (4) women are more likely than men to be diagnosed with affective disorders, none of these factors substantiates that premenstrual anger/distress is caused by a mental disorder. I argue that to assume they do is to ignore the now accepted role that one's environment and psychology play in illness development, as well as arguments concerning the social construction of mental illness. In doing so, I do not claim that there are no women who experience premenstrual distress or that their distress is not a lived experience. My point is that such distress can be recognised and considered significant without being pathologised and that it is unethical to describe premenstrual anger/distress as a mental disorder. Further, if the credibility of women's suffering is subject to doubt without a clinical diagnosis, then the way to address this problem is to change societal attitudes towards women's suffering, not to label women as mentally ill. The paper concludes with some broader implications for women and society of the change in status of PMDD in the DSM-5 as well as a sketch of critical policy suggestions to address these implications.

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“The Old Me Could Never Have Done That”: How People Give Meaning to Recovery Following Depression

Abstract: Depression is usually a "self-limiting" condition, and recovery is likely

Cited by 77 publications

References 18 publications

“An Ongoing Struggle With the Self and Illness”: Α Meta-Synthesis of the Studies of the Lived Experience of Severe Mental Illness

“An Ongoing Struggle With the Self and Illness”: Α Meta-Synthesis of the Studies of the Lived Experience of Severe Mental Illness

Mental distress: Strategies of sense-making

Is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Really a Disorder?

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