When individuals experience stigmatization due to excessive alcohol consumption or severe obesity, the partnership between healthcare professionals and patients will lack mutual understanding.Enhancing mutual understanding is essential to facilitate earlier detection of liver disease.

Stigmatization in the health care system could possibly be reduced by showcasing - and reflecting on - the more creative aspects of these individuals.
In an interdisciplinary collaboration at SDU, we have conducted reading and writing workshops for patients with obesity, diabetes, or alcohol overuse.

A published text by Danish authors was read and interpreted in the facilitated group, and the participants wrote their own creative texts and finally read these texts aloud to each other in the group.

On this webpage in two languages, you can hear authentic stories of people who have felt stigmatized in the Danish healthcare system and listen to a total of 13 texts written by the participants.
In this English version, the animated films have subtitles, and the texts are read aloud in a sound studio by two stand-ins, a man and a woman.