Why doesn't God say “enough”? Experiences of living with bipolar disorder in rural Ethiopia

Mekdes Demissie, Charlotte Hanlon, Lauren Ng, Abebaw Fekadu and Rosie Mayston

Social Science & Medicine, 2021, vol. 270, issue C

Abstract: Little is known about the specific experience people living with bipolar disorder in rural, low resource settings, where conditions that disrupt normal social interactions are often highly stigmatized and evidence-based treatments are rare.

Keywords: Bipolar disorder; Severe mental illness; Lived experience; Stigma; Qualitative research; Phenomenology; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113625

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