Table 2 Main Themes
From: Bodily expression of psychological distress in adolescents: a qualitative study
1. The personal experience of the disorder | a. Bodily experience b. Quest for meaning c. Death anxiety |
2. The disorder's effect on their relationships | a. Family reactions Disbelief, abuse State of dependence Family history b. Reactions of peers and school c. Medical care providers' reactions |
3. The question of what's visible through the body | a. What the adolescent lets be seen b. What others can see c. What Medicine does not see Sign of the disease's nonexistence for physicians And in this nothingness, the psychological cause finds its place The families questioned the limitations of medicine |