ABSTRACT

Chronic illness diagnoses frequently cause the shattering of personal assumptions about the self and the world, resulting in an experience of alienation and fragmentation of identity. Multiple studies on the effects of expressive writing have demonstrated physical, emotional, and psychological health benefits, yet little is known about how it might offer benefit in response to a chronic illness diagnosis. Combining the transformation-through-writing model with the dual process model for non-death loss and grief, I take an autoethnographic approach to explore how creative writing about Fibromyalgia (FM) allowed me to progress from a first story/loss orientation to a second story/restoration orientation as part of a dialogical process of self-reconstruction.

摘要

慢性病的诊断经常导致个人对自我和世界的假设破灭，导致身份异化和分裂的体验。对表达性写作影响的多项研究表明，对身体、情感和心理健康有益，但对于它如何为慢性病诊断提供益处知之甚少。将通过写作转变的模型与非死亡损失和悲伤的双重过程模型相结合，我采用了一种自我民族志的方法来探索关于纤维肌痛 (FM) 的创造性写作如何让我从第一个故事/损失方向发展到第二个作为自我重建对话过程的一部分的故事/修复导向。