The outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic has changed many persisting modalities of human life. Toward reducing public stigma, tackle the cyclical impact of labels, highlight the need toĬhange social and medical attitudes, and revisualize treatment and support. Speaking up about mental health through autoethnography can help to promote awareness of the unpredictability and socially constructed nature of mental illness and can inform strategies To the question, ‘at what point does a ‘life in the asylum’ narrative become autoethnographic?’ I argue for the potential of autoethnography to contribute to broader sociological, ethnographic and medical debates and thus impact on policy. Reality of life with or beyond mental illness as personally and socially messy. One’s illness experience can be rightly perceived as a way of reclaiming personal ‘power’Īnd facilitating healing, attempts to ‘evidence’ recovery can run counter to the writer’s I argue that, while the act of writing about Mental illness, intertextuality issues, the tangled nature of revelation and redemption,įraming the ‘Other’ in mental illness autoethnography and depictions of ‘life in theĪsylum.’ I explain how in telling my own ‘psychiatric’ tale, I looked to the symbolicĬoncept of ‘communitas’ as a means of examining inter-relational processes and collectiveĮxperience in a psychiatric facility. I discuss the drawbacks and dangers of exposing a ‘flawed’ identity, the stigma of serious Drawing from my own and others’ trajectories, This article sheds light on autoethnographic accounts of mental illness, to addressĪuthor and reader concerns and questions and to consider what practitioners can
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