Kamal Khaleghpanah
Abstract
Living with a chronic disease is a long-lasting process of experiencing symptoms and pain, recognizing and understanding this situation, and the re-conceptualizing and reconstructing the future of the person suffering from it. Chronic pains are among the complicated symptoms experienced by patients both ...
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Living with a chronic disease is a long-lasting process of experiencing symptoms and pain, recognizing and understanding this situation, and the re-conceptualizing and reconstructing the future of the person suffering from it. Chronic pains are among the complicated symptoms experienced by patients both perceptibly and imperceptibly in their everyday life. The theoretical idea of the article is that chronic pains resulting from chronic require endless patience with the body. They require a kind coexistence with an unpredictable body and the perceptible and imperceptible pains that erupt at times least expected. This article tries to show how and in what ways chronic pain is a kind of suffering. In this article neurophysiological theories that reduce pain to a bodily feeling caused by the reaction of the brain are pushed aside and the lived experience of chronic pains in MS patients is phenomenologically studied. Through this investigation into disrupted memories, divine metaphors and sensational personal writings including fear of disability and constant practice of patience with the body, bodily dissatisfaction, and complaints of the body.sability, practicing tolerance toward the body, and discontentment with and complaining about the body.
Minoo Salimi; Ahmad Naderi
Abstract
Since earthquake has a wide range of effects on people's lives, we can think of it as an important variable in the changes of societies’ social life. The social consequences of the disaster vary according to age, gender, economic and social class. Children, women and low-income people are among ...
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Since earthquake has a wide range of effects on people's lives, we can think of it as an important variable in the changes of societies’ social life. The social consequences of the disaster vary according to age, gender, economic and social class. Children, women and low-income people are among the most suffering groups. This qualitative research has been conducted with the aim of understanding the women’s lived experiences of earthquakes in Sarpol-e-Zahab. This study has used a phenomenological approach and conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 women affected by the earthquake. As a result, there are 90 interview texts and 10 written texts of informant’s lived experiences and their interpretation, which are recorded in 120 semantic units. The findings of the study, which are 18 sub-themes and finally 5 main themes, show that women go through very difficult conditions. Identity crisis and their incompatibility with the post-earthquake condition, sexual abuse, committing suicide, decreasing in the age of committing suicide, earthquake and post-earthquake phobia, sudden lifestyle change, lack of peace, lack of facilities and financial capacity, qualitative and quantitative difficulties and disorders in schools, the increase in family strife, the increase in divorce, the increase in violence have caused social, psychological and cultural unrest in this city.
