Black Dog Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to medical research related to mental health. This online collection houses 18 different stories related to mental health (including bipolar disorder, PTSD, anxiety, depression), each representing the lived experiences of those who wrote them. Each story has a short description. A majority of the stories are from patient perspectives while some of them are based around a provider narrative. Since the themes throughout the stories vary so much, this site could be utilized in any syllabus focused on mental health. Such stories show the personalizing of diagnoses as well as show variability in how they are experienced, which can help to expand the general notions and stereotypes that are held around mental health
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- Link: https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/personal-stories/
Details
Language: English
Type of Story: Webpage
Medium: written
Contributed by: Zory Smith-Miodownik ( lc21-0513@lclark.edu )
Citation:
Personal Stories. (n.d.). Black Dog Institute. https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/personal-stories/