Phenomenological categories associated with the cognitive style	Their expression in everyday common sense reality	Their transformation within the lived world of illness
Unified being-in-the-world	The individual is the agent of his/her own actions; he/she experiences the indivisibility of his/her own body	First division: Illness introduces a division within the individual as agent, who is suddenly separated from his/her own body, where the latter becomes an external, foreign and unfamiliar object.
Being-in-the-world present to relationships	The individual’s sociality and his relationship to others imply empathy and the feeling of being part of the same world	Second division: Illness introduces a division within the individual’s social world, where the latter is separated from the individual and his/her own body.
Present exists through its relationship with past and future	Shared temporality that is closely linked to the everyday life-world and that is therefore not present in the consciousness	There is a modification of temporality through an exclusive focus on illness and its concrete consequences (frequent exams, time schedules for medication, hospitalisation, etc.) Time is experienced as chronic and frozen. External and internal times are unsychronised.
Being is a being-in-the-world	The individual is aware and orients his/her attention to his/her surrounding world; he/she is activity in the world	New attention required from the “new” world of medicine and healthcare. Modification of consciousness through medication along with tiredness and fatigue; withdrawal from his/her surrounding world.
Being is future projects and actions	Enacted, the individual accomplishes projects through his/her actions.	The experience of illness alters the fulfillment of every project, frozen in a time that is now turned towards a new world surrounding the individual: that of healthcare.
Being has no doubt about the world	The individual accepts his/her world without questioning its appearance; he manages to isolate any concern in regard to death.	Both, the experience of illness and the suffering body suddenly introduce the issue of death. Self-evidence towards the world and towards human relations is strongly shaken. The individual’s perception of his/her own fragility and dealth become increasingly present.