I Do Not Really Belong Out There Anymore

Sense of Being and Belonging Among People With Medically Unexplained Long-Term Fatigue

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4672157
AutoresOlaug S Lian (0000-0002-5752-1486, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, autor correspondente), Geir Fagerjord Lorem (0000-0003-0334-4768, UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Ano2017
Volume27
Fascículo4
Páginas474-486
Data de publicação2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732316629103
PMID26893305
OpenAlexW2325708069
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas40

In this article, we explore relations between health, being, belonging and place through an interpretive thematic analysis of autobiographic text and photographs about the everyday lives of 10 women and men living with medically unexplained long-term fatigue in Norway. While interpreting their place-related illness experiences, we ask: How do they experience their being in the world, where do they experience a sense of belonging/not belonging, and why do places become places of belonging/not belonging? The participants describe experiences of (a) being socially detached and alienated, (b) being imprisoned, (c) being spectators who observe the world, and (d) senses of belonging. They describe senses of being and belonging/not belonging as closely attached to physical and symbolic aspects of places in which they reside, and they wistfully reflect on the question of "why." The study illustrates the influence of experienced place-material as well as immaterial-on health and illness

Epistemology · Everyday life · Health care · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Thematic analysis · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research · Gender Studies · Health, psychology, and well-being · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology