Service user perspectives on the impact of a mental illness diagnosis.

Diana Rose, Graham Thornicroft
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Abstract

Aim: To provide a conceptual and practical analysis of the impacts of mental health diagnoses on consumers and to consider how service users might contribute to the new psychiatric classifications currently being drawn up.

Methods: A search was carried out revealing a very sparse literature on this topic. Consultations with service users were conducted and the views of experts sought.

Results: Diagnosis is important as it marks the formal status of psychiatric patient being conferred. Consumers react differently, and often, negatively to this. Stigma can follow from a diagnosis. The process of giving a diagnosis can range from one of negotiation and taking the person's strengths into account to the blunt allocation of an unwanted label. Consumers can be reduced to their diagnosis so it becomes their whole personhood and this can have an effect on their sense of self. However, consumers are not passive victims and have their own strategies for dealing with these issues.

Conclusion: Consumers can use these experiences to make contributions to the new diagnostic classification systems and to future research.

服务使用者对精神疾病诊断影响的看法。
目的:对心理健康诊断对消费者的影响进行概念和实践分析,并考虑服务使用者如何有助于目前正在起草的新的精神病学分类。方法:进行检索,发现关于该主题的文献非常稀少。与服务使用者进行了协商,并征求了专家的意见。结果:诊断是重要的,因为它标志着精神病人的正式地位被授予。消费者对此的反应不同,而且往往是消极的。病耻感可以从诊断中产生。做出诊断的过程可以是协商,考虑到病人的长处,也可以是直接给病人贴上不想要的标签。消费者可以被简化为他们的诊断,因此它成为他们的整个人格,这可以对他们的自我意识产生影响。然而,消费者不是被动的受害者,他们有自己的策略来处理这些问题。结论:消费者可以利用这些经验为新的诊断分类系统和未来的研究做出贡献。
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