“I don’t believe I’m going to recover from anything.” Understanding recovery amongst people with severe mental illness attending community health services in Spain

Abstract

We advocate the need to make alternative recovery concepts and narratives visible to the mental health services' users and practitioners.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONThe concept of personal recovery is not common amongst mental health services' users as recovery is mainly understood in social and biomedical terms.Different conceptualizations of recovery can coexist in participants.Mental health services should consider alternative narratives to personal recovery.Mental health services should provide resources for creating community and sense of belonging as first strategies for promoting recovery.