Healthy or ill? The categories of mental health and mental illness in the perspective of individuals with the experience of a mental health crisis and the new role of the expert by experience in the mental health and social welfare system

The article presents the results of qualitative research on ways of perception of the categories of mental health and illness by individuals with the experience of psychotic and psycho-affective disorders in the context of their recovery process. Moreover, the author puts an emphasis on describing one of the strategies of dealing with the stigma of mental disorder, which translates itself into a new social and professional role of the expert by experience (EX-IN)