BACKGROUND: This study investigated Western Australian consumer perspectives of recovery from the effects of a severe mental illness. METHOD: The grounded theory method was used to collect and analyze data acquired through 15 face-to-face interviews. DISCUSSION: Participants described recovery as a three-phase process of overcoming loss in biomedical, psychological and/or social dimensions. This process was facilitated by personal protective factors and external mechanisms and further explained in the context of role theory. CONCLUSIONS: Recovery can occur in any one or all of the three dimensions and thus can be complete or partial. It is important to ask, therefore: recovery from what, recovery of what, and recovery to what?
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