Depression As a Path to Change: An Adult Woman's Voice About Parenting Practices, Mental Health and Recovery

This study presents how the authoritarian style manifested by the interviewee's parents, in an interdependence culture, influenced how she felt, thought and acted at different stages of her life course, until falling into depression. Also, the study presents the winding road of recovery from depression. An authoritarian parenting style, manifested in a family environment in which the interdependence of members is strongly promoted, can affect mental health, creating vulnerability to depression. Understanding the past seems to be the foundation for the beginning of a journey for the personal reconstruction of a new and dynamic sense of self, in the winding road of recovery.
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research