Paolo Fusar-Poli, Andrés Estradé, Giovanni Stanghellini, Cecilia Maria Esposito, René Rosfort, Milena Mancini, Peter Norman, Julieann Cullen, Miracle Adesina, Gema Benavides Jimenez, Caroline da Cunha Lewin, Esenam A Drah, Marc Julien, Muskan Lamba, Edwin M Mutura, Benny Prawira, Agus Sugianto, Jaleta Teressa, Lawrence A White, Stefano Damiani, Candida Vasconcelos, Ilaria Bonoldi, Pierluigi Politi, Eduard Vieta, Jennifer Radden, Thomas Fuchs, Matthew Ratcliffe, Mario Maj
We provide here the first bottom-up review of the lived experience of depression, co-written by experts by experience and academics. First-person accounts within and outside the medical field were screened and discussed in collaborative workshops involving numerous individuals with lived experience of depression, family members and carers, representing a global network of organizations. The material was enriched by phenomenologically informed perspectives and shared with all collaborators in a cloud-based system...
October 2023: World Psychiatry: Official Journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)