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• Peer support instead of community solidarity among people with psychiatric diagnosis: Examining an online, anonymous self-help website

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  Borbála Bányai

  Anna Légmán

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  In our research, we examined the first social networking website in Hungary that was specifically and explicitly designed for people with mental health problems and their relatives, or for people interested in the topic. A unique feature is that in 2021, it will still be possible to register anonymously and post comments on the site. Our research explores the life situations of people diagnosed as psychiatrically ill based on the concept of the recovery model, and therefore a central question for us is how an online self-help, peer support group can contribute to the recovery of individuals. In addition, one of the main hypotheses of our research is that community solidarity towards people with a psychiatric diagnosis is very low at different levels of society, and therefore self-help and peer support, also provided by the site we are investigating, may be of particular importance for the people concerned. We assume that they are a group that is highly stigmatised and socially rejected. In the media they are typically either invisible or portrayed as violent, aggressive figures. The Covid19 epidemic situation has led to many people experiencing psychological difficulties because of quarantine or the long-term side effects of the virus itself, which have been thematised in the media, but we believe that the mechanisms of solidarity with those diagnosed as psychiatric patients have not fundamentally changed (see for example the first establishment of psychiatric hospital wards

• Quality of life, disability of people living with psychiatric diagnosis

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  Borbála Bányai

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  21

  The paper aims at demonstrating the quality of life of the people living with psychiatic diagnosis.
  I used the data stemming from the standard and specific module (Social Inequalities in Health
  Quality) of the European Social Survey to present the quality of life of the disabled persons. I
  applied qualtitative methodology to investigate specifities of life course in case of people living
  with psychiatric diagnosis. My results suggest that people defining themselves as ’disabled’
  differ from non-hampered population first of all in the indicators of emotional and physical
  subjective well-being. According to the narrative interviews the quality of life of people living
  with psychiatric diagnose is largely influenced by their adaptive and coping strategies aiming to
  preserve the balance of their mental status.