Understanding recovery in the context of lived experience of personality disorders: a collaborative, qualitative research study

Table 2 Thematic organisation of the data

Section	Initial themes	Final themes
1. The lived experience of personality disorders	1.1 The internal world	The internal world
	1.2 The external world	The external world
	1.3 Diagnosis	Diagnosis
2. Personality disorders and recovery	2.1 Personal understandings of recovery	Recovering or discovering the self – reconciling the internal and external worlds
	2.2 Acceptance	Recovery and discovery – doing things differently
	2.3 Positive feelings about recovery	Recovery and discovery – feeling and thinking differently
	2.4 Relationships and recovery
	2.5 Recovery and society
	2.6 Obstacles to recovery
	2.7 Goals
3. Treatment and support	3.1 Medication
	3.2 Specialist
	3.3 Mainstream
	3.4 Therapy
	3.5 Support

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