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"Lived experiences chronicling everything from pain management to drug
addiction abound online, but do they really aid recovery? New research led by
experts at the University of Nottingham and published this week in
World
Psychiatry proves definitively that – in mental health settings at least –
they do.
The team painstakingly curated a digital library of hundreds of audio, video,
written word and image files recounting stories of mental health recovery, told
through prose, poetry and even the odd graphic novella.
Study participants, all with non-psychotic mental health problems like low
mood, stress and anxiety, were given access to use it as much or as little as
they liked over the course of a year. The results revealed an uplift in their
quality of life.
“I think seeing on a large scale that other people have had similar
experiences, and that things get a bit better in the future, can give people
hope,” explains study co-ordinator Dr Stefan Rennick-Egglestone.
“And if people have hope, they can try new things to find better routes to a
brighter future.”
The work – a world first – was born out of study lead prof. Mike Slade’s time
as a clinical psychologist in the NHS, where he saw recovery narratives used
ad-hoc, rather than as a formal practice tool."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
