Abstract This article represents reflections on current social and legal issues for people given a mental diagnosis, from lived experience perspective. The addresses: • Major obstacles to justice with this experience. What differences have been able make. Key challenges the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) UN Convention Rights Persons Disabilities is used as basis reflections. has p...

conclusions this study demonstrates that the mental states associated with specific diseases should not be ignored in evaluating health states. although there are benefits to relying on expert panels and the general population in evaluating various health states, attention to the particular health states of the patients (taking into account their associated mental well-being) should also be uti...