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Two highlighted the conceptual fluidity and similarities between their ideas about and experiences of \u2018happiness\u2019 and \u2018mania\u2019. Two emphasized the differences between these notions for the participants, which reflected the destruction, disruption, and chaos of \u2018mania\u2019 in contrast to the importance of self\u2010acceptance, peacefulness, and social connection for \u2018happiness\u2019.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:bold>Conclusion.<\/jats:bold>\n                      There may be benefit in maintaining an active dialogue or \u2018poly\u2010vocality\u2019 about the meanings of \u2018happiness\u2019 in clinical work with people who experience \u2018positive states\u2019 of mind, which are personally problematic. This can be supported by drawing on ideas and narratives about \u2018happiness\u2019 from the field of positive psychology.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Practitioner Points<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:list list-type=\"explicit-label\">\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>People who have been given a label of \u2018bipolar disorder\u2019 may experience both similarities and differences between their experiences of \u2018happiness\u2019 and \u2018mania\u2019.<\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>Clinical practice may benefit from embracing \u2018poly\u2010vocality\u2019 to open up a wider range of narratives about \u2018high\u2019 and \u2018happy\u2019 so practitioners, carers, and service\u2010users do not get stuck in dominant constructions of these \u2018positive states\u2019 as \u2018illness\u2019.<\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>Positive psychology interventions that pertain to acceptance and peacefulness or meaningful social connection to community could offer alternative narratives for guiding the pursuit of \u2018happiness\u2019 and alleviating distress.<\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <\/jats:list>\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/j.2044-8341.2012.02064.x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,4,24]],"date-time":"2012-04-24T17:30:28Z","timestamp":1335288628000},"page":"431-446","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["High and happy? 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