Table 3 Themes, categories and sub-categories resulting from the analysis
Theme | Category | Sub-category |
|---|---|---|
Mental health is helped and hindered by the surroundings | Social influences | The family as support |
Friends and partners can be both good and bad to have around | ||
School is both important and a cause of stress | ||
Society as a whole should be better at helping | ||
The internet is supportive, but can also make things worse | ||
Not being lonely | ||
The healthcare system and its function | Some people feel helped, others do not | |
You know you’re sick when the healthcare services react | ||
You have to ask us how we’re feeling! | ||
What is needed to be able to get help | What others think about mental health may give feelings that are difficult to handle | |
Meeting a real person and feeling safe | ||
Getting to choose for yourself | ||
It’s not supposed to be so difficult | ||
We need to get info | ||
We’re different individuals with different needs | ||
Mental health is difficult to understand and difficult to achieve | How good and bad mental health works | Feeling good or bad can be lots of different things |
Mental health is our main problem! | ||
Different kinds of health depend on each other | ||
Hard to know and show how you’re feeling | ||
You know how you’re feeling depending on how you’re doing socialy | ||
Being able to manage your health | Taking care of yourself | |
How I’m feeling is my identity |