Mental health, hope and recovery

Grant Blashki

“Mental health conditions are extremely common in the community and have a major impact on people’s day-to-day lives, as anyone who has been through the experience will tell you. For many people one of the hardest things is the uncertainty about recovery, and indeed, it is often a person’s very sense of hope that is diminished. For people experiencing mental distress there often is a powerful sense of hopelessness combined with a sense of despair that they will never recover. My hope is that this chapter also brings hope, especially to those readers who are doubting their capacities to heal …”