Challenged life: How to live and cope with slow physical decline
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15135/2018.6.1.29-45Abstract
In this research project a retrospective interview with a 32-year-old woman, who has been living with diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis for more than ten years, was conducted and analysed. Over the course of time, the inner attitude of the research participant towards her disorder altered. Right after getting the diagnosis, her behaviour was shaped by strictly rejecting to ‘have’ the concerning disease. Starting about 3 years ago, a gradual change is described towards an accepting stance to her body abnormalities. But it is not an either-or logic – we have evidence of coexistence of contradictions. This curiosity about simultaneous existing contradictions is the field for negotiating the maintenance of the self-consistency under impending health deterioration.
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