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The term "biographical disruption" describes the major disruptive experience of developing a chronic illness and the consequent rethinking of a person's biography and self concept.
We organised and analysed our data using the theoretical concept of biographical disruption, 33 to understand how HIV acts as a disruptive experience on an individual's life, social relations and identity.
Bury [ 4] regarded chronic illness as constituting a major disruptive experience in the past, present, and future — what he termed a 'biographical disruption.' Charmaz [ 5] developed the idea of 'loss of self' [ 5], in which people with physical disabilities experience the interaction between self and significant others as having a negative impact on their social life and self-image.
I would just add that I believe that people who survive a trauma or have a powerfully disruptive experience (so, all living people, lets assume) can often feel that a part of themselves is trapped in amber at that age, even as clock time moves relentlessly onward.
And what has recently befallen Elsted and her family highlights what that means in practice: not just the cost of changing homes, but the headache of finding new school places, and dealing with probably the most disruptive experience that children can go through.
"For you in Christchurch, it is inevitable that, after such a shocking and disruptive experience, choices about the way forward will be challenging.
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"What happens when you take a business that's good at analog stores, and software can deliver new disruptive experiences?
Banner and pre-roll ads have their place, but today's users won't tolerate disruptive experiences.
He also suggested video is are an area where quad-core chips have the potential to support new types of (disruptive) experiences and applications.
"We are absolutely looking at [network-level ad blocking] technology," O2's managing director of digital commerce Robert Franks told BI. "We are looking at these technologies to see if they can help our customers with some of the bad practices and disruptive experiences that are happening".
Sometimes our most disruptive experiences have nothing to do with our use of technology.
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