Journey of a psychiatric nurse: Growing up with parents with mental illness.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: The parent-child relationship has a significant impact on children's mental health. Families with individuals with mental illness constitute a high-risk group in the community. It can be challenging for children to cope with issues related to having parents with mental illness. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE?: This paper explains the feelings, thoughts and experiences of a psychiatric nurse whose parents both have a mental illness and emphasizes the positive and negative effects of growing up in such a situation. The effects of growing up with parents with mental illness should be addressed as a whole. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE?: The narrative highlights the impact that parents with mental illness have on children. Psychiatric nurses are in a key position to provide children whose parents have a mental illness with timely and continuous help in developing coping and support mechanisms.