1. What new understandings do you have about your parent who lives or lived with a mental illness?

2. How has having a parent living with a mental illness affected your life?

3. What do you manage the stress in your life? How have you grown in your ability to manage your stress?

4. How has having a parent living with a mental illness affected your family relationships and other relationships (friends, work)?

5. What support are you getting? What support do you need?

6. How have you changed through your experience of having a parent living with a mental illness?

7. What have you learned to appreciate about your parent who lives or lived with a mental illness?

8. What would you like to see changed in how the health care systems responds to persons living with mental illness?

9. What are your thoughts about what you can do to advocate for family members or others who live with mental illness?

10. What is one thing you would like to change about how you respond to family members who live with mental illness?

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