Struggles for recognition: a content analysis of messages posted on the Internet

Figures & data

Table 1 Illustration of the inductive analyzing process used to explore the manifest and latent content of the messages from submitters on Internet-based mental health services in Norway and Sweden

Original text	Condensed text	Subcategory	Category	Theme
Hi, I’m so very scared because my mom beats me and my little siblings. I don’t know what to do or anything like that. I feel too scared to do anything	A submitter beaten by his/her mother. Afraid and doesn’t know what to do	Beating	Violence	Relationship to significant others

Table 2 Service users’ concerns voiced on Internet-based mental health services in Norway and Sweden

Subcategories	Categories	Themes
1. Conflicts	1. Family life	Relationship to significant others
2. Deaths
3. Divorce
4. Alcohol abuse, drug addiction, and mental disorders
5. Falling in love	2. Couples
6. Serious relationships
7. Breaking up
8. Friends	3. Others
9. Helpers
10. School
11. Beating	4. Violence
12. Sexual abuse
13. Harassment
14. Bullying
15. Emotions	5. The ungovernable	Relationship to self
16. Thoughts
17. Actions
18. Looks and appearance	6. Self-image
19. Self-respect
20. Social anxiety
21. Difficult changes	7. Negotiating normality	Relationship to the social community
22. Bodily function and malfunction
23. Eating, weight, and exercise
24. The art of classification
25. Depression and despair	8. Life struggles
26. Deadlocked situations
27. Negotiating death

Table 3 Service users’ concerns as voiced on Internet-based mental health services, related to core aspects of the social theory of Axel Honneth

Service users’ concerns	Form of recognition	Practical relation to self
Relationship to significant others	Love	Basic self-confidence
Relationship to self	Legal order	Self-respect
Relationship to the social community	Solidarity	Self-esteem