![]() A graphic recorder was present for the focus group discussions to create a visual representation of the results and capture the conversations in a way that simple data representations and other qualitative methods cannot. Treatment Advocacy Center remedied this research gap by conducting focus group interviews to hear directly from women with severe mental illness about the unique experiences, challenges, and barriers they face in achieving the lives they want. Too often, research is conducted on and about people, rather than inclusive of the people being studied. However, missing from this research base is information about how women themselves feel about their illness and how it impacts their lives. Underserved,” which presented the ways in which women with serious mental illness disproportionately experience negative outcomes compared with men with the same disorders and women without serious mental illness. In 2016, Treatment Advocacy Center published the report “ 10 Ways Women with Serious Mental Illness Are Overrepresented. Additionally, having a severe mental illness has important implications for women’s health issues, such as in reproductive health, where symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may change over the course of a woman’s menstrual cycle, during pregnancy, or after menopause. Symptoms of the disorders, such as hallucinations, delusions, or flat affect, which causes people to not be able to express emotions or understand emotions in other people, may present differently in women compared to men, and women may have different side effects from the medications that are used to treat severe mental illness. ![]() Women tend to have a later age of onset of the illness, developing symptoms for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia in their late 20s, compared to early 20s in men. ![]() There are important sex differences between men and women with severe mental illness. Approximately half of these individuals receive no treatment in a given year. Severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, severe bipolar disorder, and major depression with psychotic features, impacts 8.8 million adults in the United States. Guest blog by Elizabeth Sinclair Hancq, Director of Research, Treatment Advocacy Center. ![]()
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