In this article, through a reflexive account, I present the ways the sudden onset of clinical depression in my own life brought me closer to the vulnerabilities (due to stigma around mental illness) as well as opportunities to contribute to the mental health of my clients as a prosumer. In delineating this process, I have also highlighted how my role as an active qualitative researcher of homeless mentally ill people in India during the episode of my clinical depression helped me reaffirm my identity as a therapist or an "enabler" who could empathize with and create a humanizing therapeutic space for my clients as well as research participants. I thus underscore the value of interdisciplinary perspectives on mental health that invites reflexive learning (often through empathy) about the context and experience of distress or empowerment rather than only symptoms and its treatment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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“现在我知道你的感受了……”：作为产消者从精神疾病中幸存下来的亲身经历。

在这篇文章中，通过一个反思性的叙述，我展示了我自己生活中突然发作的临床抑郁症如何使我更接近脆弱性（由于对精神疾病的耻辱）以及为我的客户的心理健康做出贡献的机会作为产消者。在描述这一过程时，我还强调了我在临床抑郁症发作期间作为印度无家可归精神病患者的积极定性研究人员的角色如何帮助我重申我作为治疗师或能够同情并创造的“推动者”的身份为我的客户和研究参与者提供人性化的治疗空间。因此，我强调了关于心理健康的跨学科观点的价值，它邀请对痛苦或赋权的背景和经历进行反思性学习（通常通过同理心），而不仅仅是症状及其治疗。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。