女性作为年轻精神健康问题患者的非正式照料者的隐形性

This article draws on a feminist heuristic inquiry to examine the lived experiences of eight women providing informal care to young adults with mental ill health in England. Employing semi-structured interviews within researcher-developed ‘thinking nurture spaces’, alongside autoethnographic data from the researcher as a ninth co-inquirer, the article exposes four empirical themes: connection as a conditional and often absent resource; systemic professional invisibility, including the consistent failure to enact statutory rights under the Care Act 2014 in England; the sustained emotional and p