The graduation thesis presents the mental health of women in the municipality of Črenšovci, what problems they may face, what has a positive effect on their health and what makes it worse. The experiences of women staying in a psychiatric hospital are also presented, that is, how they felt inside the institution, what they think the institution gave them and what it may have taken. In the theoretical part, I first presented some basic characteristics of mental health, then I focused on the three most common forms of mental health problems that women face based on a number of studies. What followed is a presentation of addiction and forms of help that women can turn to in case of mental health problems. The emphasis was also on institutional care, in the framework of which I presented the Ormož Psychiatric Hospital, as all my interviewees had the experience of living in this institution. I used qualitative research and, with the help of a partially structured interview, interviewed eight women from the municipality of Črenšovci with experience of living in a psychiatric hospital. The aim of this research was to draw attention to the issue of mental health of women with the experience of living in a psychiatric hospital in the municipality of Črenšovci and to shed light on their experience of living in an institution. Through the assignment, I highlight the importance of talking about the topic of mental health, which is not talked about enough in smaller villages, and with it, I try to raise awareness and inform women. Research has shown that women’s mental health is worse than I expected and that these problems manifest themselves in forms such as stress, ‘nerve’ problems, depression and loneliness. The problem of women is also a poor or insufficiently widespread social network and poor relationships within the family, in some cases there is also domestic violence. Women became accustomed to the way of life in the institution over time, despite the fact that it was quite difficult for them at the beginning. The institution took away many things from them, which the women did not expose in its entirety, probably also because they were forced to quickly adapt to the way of life in the institution. I myself believe that we can help women in very different ways by setting up community services, without locking them up in institutions.
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