Description of Interview: My interviewee is my friend that I met in U.S., and now she went back to Hong Kong. I interviewed her through Facetime in last Saturday midnight. The interview was 50 minutes long. I document it as handwritten notes. <\/p>\n
Interview notes:<\/p>\n
Q: Age, place of birth<\/p>\n
A: 27years old and Hong Kong<\/p>\n
Q: Family composition <\/p>\n
A: My mother and I<\/p>\n
Q: Where did you grow up? <\/p>\n
A: Hong Kong<\/p>\n
Q: When you were growing up, who took care of you when you were sick? Were you treated at home? Taken to a medical clinic? Did you consult other kinds of healers? <\/p>\n
A: My mom took care me when I am sick, I am treated at home, and I am consulted therapy and psychiatry<\/p>\n
Q: Who are you living with now?<\/p>\n
A: My mother<\/p>\n
Q: Who do you usually consult when you or a member of your family are sick? <\/p>\n
A: Family doctor<\/p>\n
Q: What are the qualities you look for in a doctor or other health care provider? <\/p>\n
A: Patient, and chat with me<\/p>\n
Q: Can you tell me from the beginning to end about one serious illness you experienced? <\/p>\n
A: When I went back to Hong Kong after I graduated university, I often fight with my mom, and I felt hard to control my feeling and emotion. I am not used to live with my mom because I study aboard in U.S. 7 years. However, I had a family history-my grandma got schizophrenia, mania, paranoia. After I went to the psychiatry, then I diagnosed medium states depression. I got medicine from psychiatry. Treatment for two months. After I took the medicine, I feel more depressed, so I went to the therapy. <\/p>\n
Q: What are the symptoms that bothered you most? <\/p>\n
A: Feel lost and can’t control my emotions and I was trying to hurt herself. <\/p>\n
Q: What do you think the illness does to you? How has it changed you? <\/p>\n
A: After I got medicine, I felt sluggish and always need to sleep, every day slept 18 hrs+, and the antidepressants gained my weight 15-20 pounds. <\/p>\n
Q: Were you frightened by the illness?<\/p>\n
A: No. I don\u2019t feel that serious, and I know I has a family history of mental illness. <\/p>\n
Q: What did you fear most? <\/p>\n
A: I am afraid to bring negative emotions to my family and friends.<\/p>\n
Q: Why do you think you became ill? What do you think caused the problem? <\/p>\n
A: I believe I got the gene of mental illness. <\/p>\n
Q: Why do you think it started when it did? <\/p>\n
A: Because the psychiatrist told me that mental illness onset in the age 10-30. <\/p>\n
Q: Has your illness caused any problems within your family? At work? In other areas of your life? <\/p>\n
A: At school, is hard to focus due to the medicine(antidepressants)which regulate dopamine in the brain. <\/p>\n
Q: What did you do about your sickness? Who did you consult first? Who else did you consult?<\/p>\n
What kind of treatment did you receive? <\/p>\n
A: Chat with a therapist and medicine treatment.<\/p>\n
Q: Were you satisfied with that treatment? <\/p>\n
A: Yes, it helps me to calm down. The medicine made me don\u2019t feel any emotion. Then I can relieve myself. <\/p>\n
Q: What kind of attention or treatment do you think you should have received? <\/p>\n
A: I don\u2019t think I need any attention. <\/p>\n
Q: Did you follow the treatment recommendations that were prescribed? Why or why not?<\/p>\n
A: Yes, I stopped the medicines until the doctor said I can. <\/p>\n
Q: What are the most important results you hope to receive from medical treatment?<\/p>\n
A: I really hope I can get rid of the illness and get back to normal life.<\/p>\n
Q: How did the illness experience change your life or the way you think about life? <\/p>\n
A: I became more introverted than before. <\/p>\n
Q: What does being healthy mean to you? <\/p>\n
A: I think is lose weight and got a healthy body. <\/p>\n
Q: What do you do to stay healthy? <\/p>\n
A: Everyday workout for 1 hours. <\/p>\n
Q: What things are most harmful to people\u2019s health? <\/p>\n
A: I believe is mental illness. <\/p>\n
Q: What does being sick mean to you? <\/p>\n
A: It means that life is fragile.<\/p>\n
Q: Do you think there is any larger purpose\/meaning to sickness? Which diseases are you particularly afraid of? Why? <\/p>\n
A: I believe the meaning of sickness is to understand ourselve and how to fit with the society. I afraid of cancer diseases because it can bring a lot of stress to family members such as money and time. <\/p>\n
Q: How would you define a good life? <\/p>\n
A: Happiness.<\/p>\n
Preliminary analysis part A:<\/p>\n
Preliminary analysis part B:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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