The Meaning of Recovery: The Lived Experience of Patients with Bipolar Disorder in Turkey.

Recovery in mental illness refers to a process with many aspects, steps and meanings. This study aims to provide a deeper understanding of the lived experience of recovery of patients with bipolar disorder. A qualitative approach with 28 participants was performed.

Eating attitude in the obese patients: the evaluation in terms of relational factors.

Accessible Summary: • Obesity has become an important health problem because of the gradually increasing incidence seen within all age groups. People with obesity problems are affected lifespan and health negatively. • Obesity can be described as disease that affects lifespan and health negatively, because of body fat deposition.

Anger and alexithymic characteristics of the patients diagnosed with insomnia: a control group study.

The research was designed with a descriptive purpose to compare the alexithymic characteristics, trait anger and anger expression styles of those who are diagnosed with insomnia with those who are not. It was conducted with 96 patients who applied to Department of Sleep Disorders and were diagnosed with insomnia and 96 volunteers were not diagnosed with any psychiatric diagnosis and had not any sleep disorders in two Medical Faculty Hospitals in west of Turkey. Three types of forms were used to collect research data.