Having the opportunity at the ‘Right Time’
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Several participants talked about the combination of feeling that it was ‘the right time’ to change, and the integrated mental health intervention providing an opportunity, or the ‘push’ (Participant 5) they ‘needed’ (Participant 4). For these participants, mental health problems did not prevent it from being the right time: ‘although I was in a very bad place at that time, it was the right time’ (Participant 4). In fact, beginning therapy for their mental health in some cases appeared to signal their readiness to change (Table 