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      ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories

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          Mental health ‘recovery narratives’ are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars and activists as a co-option of lived experience for organisational purposes. But how people report their experiences of telling their stories has not been investigated at scale. We present accounts from 71 people with lived experience of multiple inequalities of telling their stories in formal and informal settings. A reflexive thematic analysis was conducted within a critical constructivist approach. Our overarching finding was that questions of power were central to all accounts. Four themes were identified: (1) Challenging the status quo; (2) Risky consequences; (3) Producing ‘acceptable’ stories; (4) Untellable stories. We discuss how the concept of narrative power foregrounds inequalities in settings within which recovery stories are invited and co-constructed, and conclude that power imbalances complicate the seemingly benign act of telling stories of lived experience.

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                Journal
                Qual Health Res
                Qual Health Res
                spqhr
                QHR
                Qualitative Health Research
                SAGE Publications (Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA )
                1049-7323
                1552-7557
                18 August 2022
                October 2022
                : 32
                : 12
                : 1828-1842
                Affiliations
                [1 ]School of Health Sciences, Institute of Mental Health, Ringgold 6123, universityUniversity of Nottingham; , Nottingham, UK
                [2 ]School of Health Sciences, Ringgold 6123, universityUniversity of Nottingham; , Nottingham, UK
                [3 ]Ringgold 5314, universityNottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; , Nottingham, UK
                [4 ]NEON Lived Experience Advisory Panel, Ringgold 6123, universityUniversity of Nottingham; , Nottingham, UK
                [5 ]Independent researcher, London, UK
                Author notes
                [*]Joy Llewellyn-Beardsley, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham Triumph Road, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Email: joy.llewellyn-beardsley@ 123456nottingham.ac.uk
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0525-6358
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6836-8595
                Article
                10.1177_10497323221118239
                10.1177/10497323221118239
                9511241
                35979858
                8f80bcad-647a-4dce-8a37-c19aa7bc1486
                © The Author(s) 2022

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                Funding
                Funded by: Programme Grants for Applied Research, FundRef https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007602;
                Award ID: RP-PG-0615-20016
                Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council;
                Award ID: ES/J500100/1
                Award ID: ES/P000711/1
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                Medicine
                mental health and illness,recovery,marginalised or vulnerable populations,stigma
                Medicine
                mental health and illness, recovery, marginalised or vulnerable populations, stigma

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