ArticleISRN nursing2011
Mothers with serious mental illness: their experience of "hitting bottom".
Article in ISRN nursing, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Parenting and Serious Mental Illness (SMI): A Systematic Review and Metasynthesis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Me, My Child, and Us: A Group Parenting Intervention for Parents with Lived Experience of Psychosis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevalence of parenthood among hospitalized adult patients with severe mental illness: a quantitative data analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Moms in motion: Predicting healthcare utilization patterns among mothers in Newfoundland and Labrador.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Improving Identification and Child-Focused Collaborative Care for Children of Parents With a Mental Illness in Tyrol, Austria.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Scoping Review of Interventions Supporting Mothers with Mental Illness: Key Outcomes and Challenges.Community mental health journal · 2016Article
- Ask me what is in my heart of hearts! The core question of care in relation to parents who are patients in a psychiatric care context.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2016Article
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Abstract
This study sought to understand the experience of "hitting bottom" from the perspective of 32 mothers with serious mental illness. Secondary narrative analysis of 173 stories about experiences related to hitting bottom were identified. Enactment of their perceived mothering roles and responsibilities was compromised when confronted by the worst of illness. Subsequent to women's descent to bottom was their need for a timely and safe exit from bottom. An intense experience in bottom further jeopardized their parenting and treatment self-determination and, for some, their potential for survival. The results suggest that prevention of bottom is feasible with early assessment of the diverse issues contributing to mothers' vulnerabilities. Interventions to lessen their pain may circumvent bottom experiences. Healing necessitates purposeful approaches to minimize the private and public trauma of bottom experiences, nurture growth towards a future, and establish resources to actualize such a life.
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