The World Health Organization’s 65th World Health Assembly stated that the global burden of mental disorders accounts for 25–33% of all disabilities [
1] and highlighted the substantial impact on family members and carers [
2]. The WHO’s “Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2030” [
3] stresses the lack of adequate health service provision in this area. Research into evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions [
4] as well as mental health services often focus on measures of symptom severity as key outcomes [
5,
6]. But policy agendas as well as patients’ views suggest considering impacts beyond pure symptom load [
3,
7], including a broad range of experiences [
8] and a consideration of a dimension of “recovery” [
7,
9,
10]. …