Journey of a psychiatric nurse: Growing up with parents with mental illness.

Accessible summary: What is known on the subject?: The parent–child relationship has a significant impact on children's mental health.Families with individuals with mental illness constitute a high‐risk group in the community.It can be challenging for children to cope with issues related to having parents with mental illness. What this paper adds to existing knowledge?: This paper explains the feelings, thoughts and experiences of a psychiatric nurse whose parents both have a mental illness and emphasizes the positive and negative effects of growing up in such a situation.The effects of growing up with parents with mental illness should be addressed as a whole. What are the implications for practice?: The narrative highlights the impact that parents with mental illness have on children.Psychiatric nurses are in a key position to provide children whose parents have a mental illness with timely and continuous help in developing coping and support mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]