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Harvard Handbook for Carers

The Caregiver’s Handbook is designed to help family members and other informal carers understand their responsibilities, organise day-to-day care, navigate medical, legal and financial matters, and cope with the emotional and physical demands of caregiving. It emphasises planning, communication, accessing appropriate support, and maintaining the caregiver’s own health and well-being.

(https://www.health.harvard.edu/promotions/harvard-health-publications/caregivers-handbook-a-guide-to-caring-for-the-ill-elderly-disabled-and-yourself

NAMI – Understanding your Diagnosis

NAMI's Understanding Your Diagnosis is an educational resource that helps people who have received a mental health diagnosis understand what it means, why it matters, and how they can use that knowledge to pursue treatment and recovery. It is intended primarily for people living with mental health conditions.

(https://www.nami.org/your-journey/individuals-with-mental-illness/understanding-your-diagnosis/)

DSM – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Version V

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) is a diagnostic reference published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). It provides standardized criteria that qualified mental health professionals use to identify, classify, and diagnose mental disorders.

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/book/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596

1. What Can We Learn from Service User Memoirs?

A discussion of the value of lived-experience accounts in mental-health care.

Read the article in The Psychiatrist

2. A Bibliography of Mental Patients' Autobiographies

A scholarly article in the American Journal of Psychiatry that examines autobiographical accounts as resources for education, research, and public understanding.

Read the article in the American Journal of Psychiatry

3. Recovery and Severe Mental Illness: Description and Analysis

An academic article exploring personal perspectives on recovery from serious mental illness.

Read the article on PubMed Central

4. Mental Health Memoirs in the Indian Medical Humanities Classroom

An article discussing the relevance of mental-health memoirs in India, including Shreevatsa Nevatia's account of bipolar disorder.

Read the article in The Polyphony

Spirituality and mental health

Royal College of Psychiatrists

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/treatments-and-wellbeing/spirituality-and-mental-health