Self-help: Helping myself towards recovery

Abstract

Background

I have used my own experiences of mental ill health and self help techniques to write a piece which is essentially an experiential account of my recovery journey

Aims

My aim is to illustrate with my own experiences the way in which self-help techniques have helped and hindered me.

Methods

I have used a biographical narrative approach.

Results

My results are that different types of self-help work for different people.

Conclusions

The conclusions which I have drawn are that choice is important and that mainstream services augmented by self-help services can give the best of both worlds.

Keywords:

• service user
• self-help
• self-management