Disclosing lived experience as a suicide researcher is never neutral. @paulinerivart.bsky.social writes on navigating positionality, disclosure, & the "insider/outsider" divide in mental health research, and why neither silence nor disclosure should be a test of rigour.
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Researchers with lived experience or the art of being caught between two stools
Over the years, I have chosen very carefully how much of my lived experience to disclose to supervisors and colleagues. To this day, there are bits I do not share in work settings, for fear of bein…