The Internet augments the informational flows that organize biographies in late modernity. Sufferers of bipolar disorder (manic depression) may turn to the Internet for accessible information, to learn about others' experiences and impart their own knowledge. Personal accounts posted in the public domain become themselves part of those informational flows, and thus acquire a dual life at a boundary between private and public domains. This poses certain challenges for the investigation of computer-mediated autobiographical telling, which are identified in this paper and negotiated in an analysis of downloaded personal accounts of bipolar disorder. Two of the stories are selected for a close look. Story 1 tells about achieving long-term remis...
Social scientists studying mental health from a qualitative approach faces a complex and diverse fie...
The goal of this article is to explore the relations between narratives and mental health from a psy...
Stress and depression are popular and powerful terms within the mental health field. Although the r...
The Internet augments the informational flows that organize biographies in late modernity. Sufferers...
The Internet augments the informational flows that organize biographies in late modernity. Sufferers...
The turn to narrative as a form of therapy has become a common practice with individuals telling the...
Personal homepages of two alterity groups--disabled persons (N = 8) and gay men (N = 12)--were syste...
Bipolar disorder is among the top 10 causes of disability worldwide. It is managed through a combina...
Bipolar disorder is among the top 10 causes of disability worldwide. It is managed through a combina...
In the mid 1990s people became fascinated with the Internet, a fact which has not only redesigned th...
In the field of e-health, the research has recently focused on blog as narrative autobiographical sp...
In this paper, we explore how existential aspects of being diagnosed and living with cancer are shar...
To be able to tell the story of your illness, as well as relating to the stories of others, has alwa...
This article consists of a qualitative analysis of discussion forums in online mental health communi...
In this article, we evaluate the ways in which computer-mediated communication (CMC) has thus far be...
Social scientists studying mental health from a qualitative approach faces a complex and diverse fie...
The goal of this article is to explore the relations between narratives and mental health from a psy...
Stress and depression are popular and powerful terms within the mental health field. Although the r...
The Internet augments the informational flows that organize biographies in late modernity. Sufferers...
The Internet augments the informational flows that organize biographies in late modernity. Sufferers...
The turn to narrative as a form of therapy has become a common practice with individuals telling the...
Personal homepages of two alterity groups--disabled persons (N = 8) and gay men (N = 12)--were syste...
Bipolar disorder is among the top 10 causes of disability worldwide. It is managed through a combina...
Bipolar disorder is among the top 10 causes of disability worldwide. It is managed through a combina...
In the mid 1990s people became fascinated with the Internet, a fact which has not only redesigned th...
In the field of e-health, the research has recently focused on blog as narrative autobiographical sp...
In this paper, we explore how existential aspects of being diagnosed and living with cancer are shar...
To be able to tell the story of your illness, as well as relating to the stories of others, has alwa...
This article consists of a qualitative analysis of discussion forums in online mental health communi...
In this article, we evaluate the ways in which computer-mediated communication (CMC) has thus far be...
Social scientists studying mental health from a qualitative approach faces a complex and diverse fie...
The goal of this article is to explore the relations between narratives and mental health from a psy...
Stress and depression are popular and powerful terms within the mental health field. Although the r...