I mean I can relate more to other peoples struggles now, and understand how life can be so difficult and hopeless sometimes for people dealing with whatever it is that’s causing them problems.
Going through the hellish experience of being mentally ill gives you a sort of wisdom and perspective, which I see when I visit here everyday and see the exchange of advice from various people at various stages of ‘recovery’.
I think you can only really understand it if you have been through it yourself. This much seems clear from the health professionals who I have dealt with who think they know, but they don’t.
Only pdoc’s seem to have a half grasp of it from what I have seen