Write an illness narrative on your personal experiences with a chronic disease. My chronic disease is chronic Asthma.
I struggle with my asthma every day, I take medicine for it daily, and when the weather changes I have a hard time adjusting. I also have a hard time when it comes to doing physical activities considering I am also plus-size.
- Provide a brief overview of your illness
- Discuss how you perceive your illness — do you view it as an alien entity that must be eliminated, or has it become embedded in your identity? How does society perceive your illness?
- In analyzing your illness experience you must use at least 1 applicable sociological term/theory discussed in the textbook, lectures, and other reading assignments. You must also define this term/theory.
- In what ways has your illness positively and negatively impacted your personal life as well as your family?
The sociological term/ theory I picked was symbolic interactionist theory.
