ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how the previous four chapters could address the context-based issues of rehabilitation besides the theoretical gaps in the study of the mental health experiences of HMI individuals. To accomplish this, the chapter has been divided into three major sections:
Experience of social suffering associated with downward mobilisation: Social suffering as a framework helps by collapsing the categories such as healthcare and social or economic factors, thereby providing a platform to understand the issues of marginalisation within the intersectionality of class, gender, caste, religion, or geographical region holistically. This section highlights many hierarchies that have led the participants into their pathways towards homelessness and precipitated the SMI, followed by a discussion on their lived experience of homelessness and SMI.
Challenges in recovery and empowerment: This section discusses the challenges the HMI individuals and their service providers experience against the dominant discourse in a neoliberal society as marginalised individuals.
Process of recovery and empowerment: This section discusses how “hope” evolved as an anchor and guide to the participants’ journey towards recovery and empowerment, despite social suffering or challenges experienced by them.
Finally, this chapter introduces some critical theoretical, methodological, applied, and policy-related implications of understanding the lived experiences of the HMI individuals through the theoretical lenses of recovery and empowerment. It takes us towards some underexplored areas in these contexts.