‘... You feel like the one that got left behind’: a narrative inquiry into the friendships of people who have endured mental health difficulties

Autor:	D Doran, Theo Stickley, A Edgley
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Public health media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Loneliness Left behind Mental health Narrative inquiry Friendship medicine Narrative medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Perspectives in Public Health. :175791392110351
ISSN:	1757-9147 1757-9139
DOI:	10.1177/17579139211035161
Popis:	Aims:To explore insights between friendship and mental health through a critical narrative inquiry. To conceptualise friendship and inform public health approaches to loneliness and mental health.Method:Seventeen interviews were conducted with middle-age people who had experienced mental health difficulties. Stories were subjected to a narrative analysis and interrogated further using critical theory.Results:Compassion in friendship reduces alterity and loneliness, and results in mutual discovery of dignity in relation to distress and stage of life. This is not achievable in all friendship.Conclusion:The temporary encounter of friendship can provide new bases for authentically relating. Through dignity and authenticity, friendship can contribute to mental health and reduce loneliness. Suggestions are made to inform public health approaches to friendship.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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