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I find the idea of studying mental health from the inside intriguing and appealing.  Having read several memoirs about mental health issues and compared and contrasted them with other’s experiences.  However, in our interconnected three or six way system, I am not sure who is on the inside and who is on the outside.  It seems that the person experiencing mental health issues is definitely on the inside.  Maybe also the people with whom this person is interacting.  Sometimes other people are able to observe things that the person in question can not or is not aware of.  These observers might be mental health workers, family, or friends.  Then, there are people involved with mental health policy.  They might be the furthest out yet.  Maybe it is more of a continuum of insidenss as opposed to outsideness?  Interconnected with, but not parallel to the subjectivity-objectivity continuum?