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Coming back normal: the process of self-recovery in those with schizophrenia.
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Individuals with schizophrenia experience a process of distinct changes in self-identity occurring between engulfment by a severe mental illness and emergence of a new self.About:
This article is published in Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 35 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming).read more
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What is psychosis? A meta-synthesis of inductive qualitative studies exploring the experience of psychosis
TL;DR: A meta-synthesis of inductive qualitative peer-reviewed research into psychosis demonstrated how the experience of psychosis is much more than simply just hallucinations and/or delusions.
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Recovery in Psychosis from a Service User Perspective: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Current Qualitative Evidence
Lisa Wood,Sarah Alsawy +1 more
TL;DR: Recovering from psychosis is an idiosyncratic process but includes key components which are important to people who experience psychosis and should be explored within clinical practice.
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An integrative review of what contributes to personal recovery in psychiatric disabilities.
TL;DR: The analysis reveals three main themes: recovery as an inner process; recovery as a contribution from others; and recovery as participating in social and meaningful activities.
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Understanding the psychosocial processes of physical activity for individuals with severe mental illness: A meta-ethnography
TL;DR: The benefits of physical activity for individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) are threefold: psychological, social, and physical as mentioned in this paper, however, despite individuals with SMI understanding that there are benefits from engaging in physical activity, many have limited confidence in their ability to exercise and often perceptual biases can act as barriers in new and unknown settings.
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Understanding Identity Changes in Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
Maev Conneely,Philip McNamee,Veenu Gupta,John Richardson,Stefan Priebe,Janelle M. Jones,Domenico Giacco,Domenico Giacco +7 more
TL;DR: A conceptual framework synthesizing how identity changes are understood in the psychosis literature is created, comprising 5 understandings that highlights the complexity of studying identity changes and suggests important implications for practice and research.
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Identity Dilemmas of Chronically Ill Men
TL;DR: Men contract more serious and life-threatening chronic illnesses than women than women as mentioned in this paper, and chronic illness frequently comes to men suddenly with immediate intensity, severity, and uncertainty, which can cause them to suffer from depression, anxiety, and depression.
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Internalized Stigma Among People Living with HIV-AIDS
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined internalized stigma among HIV-positive men and women (N = 268) in Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, and New York City, and found that participants with high internalized HIV stigma had been diagnosed with HIV more recently, their families were less accepting of their illness, they were less likely to ever have attended an HIV support group, and they knew fewer people with HIV.
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Self, Identity, and Subjective Experiences of Schizophrenia: In Search of the Subject
TL;DR: This essay explores concepts of personhood and subjectivity from social science that are useful in understanding the experiencing subject in schizophrenia.
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The top ten concerns about recovery encountered in mental health system transformation.
TL;DR: The authors discuss the various meanings of recovery as applied to mental illness and list the top ten concerns encountered in efforts to articulate and implement recovery-oriented care.
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Medication, chronic illness and identity: The perspective of people with asthma
TL;DR: Identity work, the way the respondents interpreted the social identity of asthma sufferer and managed to reconcile it with other social identities, is proposed as the most useful way of understanding the observed variation in the way people diagnosed as asthma conceptualise and use their medication.