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Bakgrund: Bipolär sjukdom är en kronisk sjukdom som medför lidande för individen. Sjukdomen kännetecknas av återkommande maniska och depressiva perioder. Den påverkar individens livsvärld och hens upplevelse av sin hälsa. Sjuksköterskan har en betydande roll i att stödja dessa patienter. Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva patienters upplevelser av att leva med bipolär sjukdom. Metod: En kvalitativ metod användes och baserades på sex självbiografier som analyserades med innebördsanalys. Resultat: I resultatet framkom fem teman. Dessa är: upplevelsen av att leva i becksvart mörker och det klaraste ljus, att uppleva skam, upplevelsen av att förlora kontrollen över sitt liv, att uppleva rädsla samt betydelsen av trygghet och stöd för att minska ensamheten. Diskussion: Personer med bipolär sjukdom upplever både hälsa och ohälsa beroende på vart i sjukdomen de befinner sig. Familjen och samhället har en inverkan på hur individen upplever sin tillvaro. Med stöd från en sjuksköterska kan personerna delvis kontrollera sin sjukdom. Deras verklighet förändras ständigt och stöd från sjuksköterskan är betydelsefullt. Konklusion: Personer med bipolär sjukdom upplever starka känslor som påverkar deras liv. För att personerna ska känna sig sedda och bekräftade måste sjuksköterskan visa öppenhet inför individens unika livsvärld., Background: Bipolar disorder is a chronic disease that entails suffering for the individual. The disease characterized by recurrent manic and depressive episodes. It affects the individual's lifeworld and his or her's health experience. The nurse has a significant role to support these patients. Aim: The aim is to describe patients' experiences of living with bipolar disorder. Method: A qualitative method was used and was based on six autobiographies analyzed with meaning analysis. Results: The results showed five themes. These are: the experience of living in the pitch-black darkness and the clearest light, the experience of shame, the experience of losing control of their life, the experience of fear and the sense of safty and support to reduce loneliness. Discussion: People with bipolar disorder experience both health and illness, depending on their current state of disease. The family and society have an impact on how the individual experience their existence. With support from a nurse the person can achieve control of the disease. Their reality is constantly changing and support from a nurse is important. Conclusion: People with bipolar disorder experience strong emotions that affect their lives. For people to feel seen and recognized the nurse must show candidness to the individual's unique lifeworld.

Bakgrund: Bipolär sjukdom är en kronisk sjukdom som medför lidande för individen. Sjukdomen kännetecknas av återkommande maniska och depressiva perioder. Den påverkar individens livsvärld och hens upplevelse av sin hälsa. Sjuksköterskan har en betydande roll i att stödja dessa patienter. Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva patienters upplevelser av att leva med bipolär sjukdom. Metod: En kvalitativ metod användes och baserades på sex självbiografier som analyserades med innebördsanalys. Resultat: I resultatet framkom fem teman. Dessa är: upplevelsen av att leva i becksvart mörker och det klaraste ljus, att uppleva skam, upplevelsen av att förlora kontrollen över sitt liv, att uppleva rädsla samt betydelsen av trygghet och stöd för att minska ensamheten. Diskussion: Personer med bipolär sjukdom upplever både hälsa och ohälsa beroende på vart i sjukdomen de befinner sig. Familjen och samhället har en inverkan på hur individen upplever sin tillvaro. Med stöd från en sjuksköterska kan personerna delvis kontrollera sin sjukdom. Deras verklighet förändras ständigt och stöd från sjuksköterskan är betydelsefullt. Konklusion: Personer med bipolär sjukdom upplever starka känslor som påverkar deras liv. För att personerna ska känna sig sedda och bekräftade måste sjuksköterskan visa öppenhet inför individens unika livsvärld., Background: Bipolar disorder is a chronic disease that entails suffering for the individual. The disease characterized by recurrent manic and depressive episodes. It affects the individual's lifeworld and his or her's health experience. The nurse has a significant role to support these patients. Aim: The aim is to describe patients' experiences of living with bipolar disorder. Method: A qualitative method was used and was based on six autobiographies analyzed with meaning analysis. Results: The results showed five themes. These are: the experience of living in the pitch-black darkness and the clearest light, the experience of shame, the experience of losing control of their life, the experience of fear and the sense of safty and support to reduce loneliness. Discussion: People with bipolar disorder experience both health and illness, depending on their current state of disease. The family and society have an impact on how the individual experience their existence. With support from a nurse the person can achieve control of the disease. Their reality is constantly changing and support from a nurse is important. Conclusion: People with bipolar disorder experience strong emotions that affect their lives. For people to feel seen and recognized the nurse must show candidness to the individual's unique lifeworld.

The research I present within this thesis is a meaning analysis of contemporary shamanism for practitioners in the north of Norway and Sweden. I have used ethnographic research methods of observation, participation, conversations, interviews, context research and analysis of written texts. My aim has been to research the meaning of the sacred in the lives of contemporary shamanic practitioners, by using a theoretical framework from psychology of religion made by Paloutzian (2005). By using this frame I have focused on practitioners understanding of spiritual beliefs and ultimate concerns. As to view how these come forth in expressions of self-definition, values, goals, purposes and attitudes. My conclusions have been that contemporary shamanism is viewed as a spiritual understanding of the world that is expressing itself differently within cultural practices and geographical spaces. It is a worldview that is connecting people through shared beliefs and understandings. These understandings create strong values on how we should act with eachother, nature and our own self, as we are viewed as belonging to each other in a spiritual perspective. These values come in conflict with social and political structures built on other values and attitudes. Practitioners speak of a call for change in structures, the need of understanding our history and our belonging with eachother and nature for our own wellbeing and our world to survive. As some engage in social activism and other social engagements, others view their goal as to”walk in beauty”(Gaup 2007).

The research I present within this thesis is a meaning analysis of contemporary shamanism for practitioners in the north of Norway and Sweden. I have used ethnographic research methods of observation, participation, conversations, interviews, context research and analysis of written texts. My aim has been to research the meaning of the sacred in the lives of contemporary shamanic practitioners, by using a theoretical framework from psychology of religion made by Paloutzian (2005). By using this frame I have focused on practitioners understanding of spiritual beliefs and ultimate concerns. As to view how these come forth in expressions of self-definition, values, goals, purposes and attitudes. My conclusions have been that contemporary shamanism is viewed as a spiritual understanding of the world that is expressing itself differently within cultural practices and geographical spaces. It is a worldview that is connecting people through shared beliefs and understandings. These understandings create strong values on how we should act with eachother, nature and our own self, as we are viewed as belonging to each other in a spiritual perspective. These values come in conflict with social and political structures built on other values and attitudes. Practitioners speak of a call for change in structures, the need of understanding our history and our belonging with eachother and nature for our own wellbeing and our world to survive. As some engage in social activism and other social engagements, others view their goal as to”walk in beauty”(Gaup 2007).