The Lived Experience of Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis

Copyright: © 2016 Walsh J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Joseph Walsh, School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1000 Floyd Avenue Richmond, VA 23284-2027, USA, Tel: 804-828-8208; E-mail: jwalsh@vcu.edu

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