This really explains my case!’: biographical reconstruction of Japanese people with fibromyalgia meeting peers
This really explains my case!’: biographical reconstruction of Japanese people with fibromyalgia meeting peers
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这确实解释了我的情况!”:日本纤维肌痛患者与同龄人的传记重建
DOI:
10.1080/14461242.2015.1098559
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Hirono Ishikawa & Takahiro Kiuchi
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文献类型:
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作者:
Mieko Homma;Yoshihiko Yamazaki;Hirono Ishikawa & Takahiro Kiuchi
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a controversial disorder with an unknown organic basis, so the legitimacy of the disease is controversial. People with FM struggle to explain their ‘invisible’ illness and to reconstruct their biographies. This study focuses on the significance of self-help groups (SHGs) in the process of reconstructing biographies of persons with FM. We interviewed 13 individuals with FM who participated in 2 different types of SHGs. Informants suffer from disparities between their severe bodily symptoms and appraisals from others, resulting in self-doubt and existential crisis. These disruptions were partially repaired by receiving a diagnosis, but this provided limited power to explain their ‘unreasonable’ disruption. Our findings indicate the importance of hearing the life stories of peers which can repair informants’ disrupted biographies through thefu-ni-ochiruexperience, a form of comprehension of one's illness by which the informant obtains a clear perspective through physical sensation, or full acceptance rather than logical understanding. Thus, our study expands knowledge regarding how people with FM reconstruct their biographies.