Immobility, battles, and the journey of feeling alive: Women's metaphors of self-transformation through depression and recovery

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1063-1072

  Fullagar, Simone ^a   O'Brien, Wendy ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Interpretive methods; Recovery; Self care; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COOPERATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; METAPHOR; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; QUEENSLAND; SELF CARE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863670176     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312443738     Document Type: Article

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