This is the second part of the qualitative study and grounded theory of peer mutual support.
Consumer operated services are an important way in which people psychiatrically labeled recover.
; Consumer operated services are a form of peer mutual support or mental health peers helping other peers. The mental health research consistently shows consumer operated services to be most helpful. The research here presented is a sociology of recovery from mental illness.
This piece of research by Philip Yanos and myself show that
successful urban de-institutionalization is possible
with community based services run and owned by “consumers” or survivors of mental health services most often called consumer operated services.
Consumer operated services are linked to improved coping and functioning needed to live in the community successfully.
Consumer Owned Services and Functioning
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This is part one of three posting of the full version of this seminal qualitative analysis of peer mutual support. It is perhaps the first grounded theory or theory from grounded in the experience of those doing it. This is how i feel theory should always be done rather than in the totally abstract reductionist way in which most science proceeds. Such objectifying processes kill the meaning of what people are doing and in the words of Jacque Maritain turning experience into an object is substituted intelligibility and not the intelligibility of people as they live. It is this lived experience which is vital and not the dead intellectual games of “scientists” who think they can control the experience of everyone around them. This control is the stated aim of the social “sciences” since August Compte. His formula “predict and control” has created the monologue we now experience in the Western world especially America where more and more only one voice is allowedd, the dead voice of the “scientist”.
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This is part three of the seminal qualitative grounded theory of the meaning of peer mutual support to those doing it. This is the protocol we used in the study.
The Meaning of Self Help Three
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Mental health services systems are usually seen as the principle way people cope with thoughts of suicide. In the article linked below we clearly see most of the time suicide coping is not.
Other peer friendly ways are used to cope. It has been Ed Knight’s opinion that the way people are treated by such services systems leads to increased suicide in the long run and not recovery. The large number of attempts or completions within 6 months of hospital “treatment” is a clear indication that this is the correct understanding. The extremely low effectiveness of anti depressants (only 2.7% better than a placebo) which are almost the only treatment and the indications that for many such drugs increase suicidal ideas is a risky way to “treat”> The way people are treated in such systems retraumatizes and leads to avoiding such systems. Research data to back this up is found in the linked research article.
This is not a easy subject to get researched. Professionals including researchers resist seeing what is going on in suicide coping.
Suicide and coping is an issue with many people diagnosed and undiagnosed. It is the considered opinion of co-researcher Ed Knight that there is widespread avoidance of mental systems when people are thinking of suicide due to widespread negative word of mouth advertising about the often cruel ways people are treated in such systems.
Follow up research shows psychiatrically labeled people avoid services due to (1) being treated with force, (2) being stereotyped by professionals and subsequently treated with less respect (3) over reaction by professionals.
Labeled people cannot openly talk to professionals due to this. Talking about suicide is the principle treatment that actually works. Professional reactions at this point seem to close down this healthy talking. People talking about suicide are less likely to do it than people not talking about suicide.
This is the first in a group of three articles. Hopefully the other two suicide coping articles will be submitted this year.
On general coping see Zen Dharma Recovery Mental Health Meditation Links
We are working on a piece based on the linked research article specifically on coping with suidical thoughts. See also Suicide Anonymous
In suicidal thoughts we can find a temporary mood changer. Seem strange? Think about it. With such thoughts we imagine we are no longer in the situation we are in which is causing us such pain. That temporary relief can be addictive. Hence a 12 step approach may be helpful.
See research Coping with thoughts of suicide: techniques used by consumers of mental health services
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