ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the areas of the psychology and medical bodies of literature, held relating to the inevitability of women who are living with physical impairments experiencing mental distress. It discusses the research with regard to the perceived potential of factors such as societal attitudes towards physical impairment and the broad representation of disability within the media. It's potential to affect the mental well-being and self-image of disabled women in the early twenty-first century. The chapter examines individual women experienced their relationships with significant persons in their lives within the context of their experiences of mental distress. Furthermore, much of the literature has suggested that individuals living with a physical impairment will need to make psychological adjustments at a number of stages if they are to fully come to terms with their impairment and to live as a psychologically whole being.
