Döttrars upplevelse av uppväxten med en mamma med ätstörning : “Still, even as a little girl, I felt that I needed to protect her from the world; a world that had cracked her open and taken out her soul.”

Sammanfattning: Abstract Title: Daughters experience of growing up with a mother with eating disorder   Authors: Malin Schelin and Caroline Westberger   Daughters risk negative identity development if they grow up with mothers with EA. Previous research shows how children of parents with mental illness easily are forgotten. This thesis investigates daughters experience of growing up with mothers with eating disorder (EA) and if and how their identity development got affected. A qualitative text analysis was carried out of six newspaper articles and nine chat posts from four chat forums. The articles and the posts were written from the daughters perspective. The result showed that the daughters felt forgotten. That they took an adult responsibility for themselves and their mothers, several of the daughters wished that they would have been given information of the mothers illness. The daughters emphasized a feeling of guilt and several of them have developed an EA. They describe that they handled their upbringing by increasing the distance to their mother, and by defining the mother's disease differently.