Illness Experiences of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes

Table 2

Themes, categories, and subcategories.

Themes	Categories	Subcategories
Tied	Confined to blood sugar control	Responding to symptoms according to changes in blood sugar
		Troublesome
		Exhaustion
	Feeling constrained	Limited food consumption
		Limited daily life
		Limited social activity
	Supervised by parents	Dependent on parents
		Parental coercion on management
		Excessive concerns from parents
		Being judged by parents
Overwhelmed	Self-banished	Defined as a diabetic
		Alienated from others
		Humiliation
		Despair
	Surrounded by stigma	Information delivered unilaterally
		Alerted from the possibility of stigma
Running away	Growing up	Psychological development
		Growing up with others
	Folding	Resisting diabetes management
		Pretending not to be diabetic
	Withdrawal	Concealing
		Isolated
Struggling	Seeking for solution to overcome	Becoming the subject of management
		Not making diabetes a fault
	Developing response skills	Coping with stigma
		Improving management skills
	Accepting help	Blood sugar management support
		Emotional support
		Support against stigma
Conciliating	Redefining my perspective	Acknowledging the benefits of diabetes
		Surmountable
		Acknowledging the need T1D management
		Acknowledging the inevitability of acceptance
		Setting actionable management goals
	Reconciling with myself	Temporary acceptance
		Gradual acceptance
		Approved constancy of mine