‘Fixing my life’: young people’s everyday efforts towards recovery from persistent bodily complaints, 2020, Kvamme et al

Andy

Andy

Retired committee member
Little is known about the perspectives of young people suffering from medically unexplained symptoms. This study aims to explore the experiences and strategies of young Norwegians related to incipient and persistent health complaints affecting everyday life functioning. The study draws on field notes, video material and interview transcripts from a multi-sited ethnographic study of healthcare services and select schools in a small Norwegian town between 2015 and 2016. A central theme is the emphasis upon social and existential constraints seemingly framed by a social imaginary of youth rather than a medical imaginary, and their active engagements to ‘fix’ their lives through what we identify as two main modalities of self-care. Navigating temporal and relational aspects of sociocultural configurations of youth in their social environments, they imagine and enact alternative qualifying positions better adapted to constraints, personal preferences and needs. Our findings may add to understandings of the needs and strategies of young sufferers of medically unexplained symptoms, relevant for health and social care encounters.
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Open access, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13648470.2020.1719456
 
Little is known about the perspectives of young people suffering from medically unexplained symptoms
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There have been dozens, if not hundreds, such studies over the last decades. All nearly identical but that's a choice those people made. At some point digging the exact same spot looking for the treasure should come the realization that you should dig elsewhere.
Our findings may add to understandings of the needs and strategies of young sufferers of medically unexplained symptoms, relevant for health and social care encounters
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And that is based on? Wishful thinking? If we still know little after endless mindless attempts at the same, why would it be different this time? Because you want it to be true? Who the hell has "unhelpful beliefs about illness" here, Doctor Freud?
A central theme is the emphasis upon social and existential constraints
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So in other words: they are sick and that limits their lives. But sure, let's do another half-century asking them how they feel, I'm sure that will yield more Nobel prize caliber stuff such as:
  1. Sick people seek medical care
  2. Sick people think they're sick
  3. Sick people don't like being sick
  4. Sick people would very much like not being sick
  5. Sick people will report they are sick
  6. Sick people remain sick even if you wish they aren't
  7. Being sick is awful
Because on top of digging the same spot over and over again is the fact that they never dig deeper, always the same depth and breadth. Dig the hole. Refill the hole. Dig it again. It's a good jobs program for people who can't science but at the cost of ruining millions of lives who strongly dissent this is definitely neither smart nor moral.
 
A central theme is the emphasis upon social and existential constraints seemingly framed by a social imaginary of youth rather than a medical imaginary, and their active engagements to ‘fix’ their lives through what we identify as two main modalities of self-care. Navigating temporal and relational aspects of sociocultural configurations of youth in their social environments, they imagine and enact alternative qualifying positions better adapted to constraints, personal preferences and needs
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They say this will lead to greater understanding, but I can't understand a word!
 
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