A lonely life journey bordered with struggle: being a sibling of an individual with psychosis

Issues in Mental Health Nursing
M EwertzonB Andershed

Abstract

Research suggests that siblings of individuals with severe mental illness are affected by the situation and that health care services seem to be inadequate in meeting their needs for support. The aim of this study is to explore how siblings of individuals with a psychotic illness, and who have participated in a support group, experience their situation. Thirteen individuals participated in focus group interviews, which were analyzed by inductive content analysis. The findings were interpreted into an overall single theme: A lonely life journey bordered with struggle. This theme consists of three categories: facing existential thoughts, facing ambiguity in approach and engagement, and facing disparate attitudes and expectations.

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