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This essay seeks to explore how personal accounts of mental distress can inform professional understanding and benefit the treatment process. We begin with a brief outline of what defines mental health, moving on to look at the similarity and disagreements between psychology and medicine and the significance this has on how individuals are diagnosed and treated. It goes on to consider how professionals might receive personal accounts and how these accounts may benefit their professional understandings. However, personal accounts may not give the whole picture therefore, we will consider to what extent personal accounts provide a misleading or incomplete picture, and what cannot be known from personal experience alone. The word mental means 'of the mind' - thoughts, feelings & understanding of oneself and the world around us. The word health means the 'working order of the body and mind'. Therefore, mental health means the working order of...

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