The Lived Experience Of Adults With Bipolar Disorder The Case Of Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital

ABSTRACTrnThe purpose of the study was to explore the lived experiences of persons with Bipolar disordersrnthe case of Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital. Ten interview participants and eleven FGDrnparticipants were participated in the study. The participants of the interview and FGDs werernselected using purposive and snow-ball sampling techniques respectively. An existentialrn(phenomenological) qualitative design was utilized. In-depth interview and FGD were conductedrnwithin two months. Four overall themes (i.e. perception towards their illness, negative andrnpositive experiences of the illness, challenges of the illness and coping strategies with theirrnillness) were emerged from the interviews and triangulated with two FGDs. The study result onrnthe first theme shows that patients have limited perception to mental illness in general and to theirrnbipolar disorder in particular. Regarding the second theme nearly all participants especiallyrnwomen participants have negative experience like forced sex (raped), socially or self stigmatized,rnphysically and emotionally abused. In relation to the third theme, participants described their lifernwith BD is complex and challenging. Regarding to the last theme, most of the participantsrnemployed negative and emotion focused coping mechanism.

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