The Lived Experience of Feeling Misunderstood

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to uncover the structure of the lived experience of feeling misunderstood. Parse’s phenomenological-hermeneutic research method was used to answer the research question: What is the structure of the lived experience of feeling misunderstood? Extraction-synthesis revealed four core concepts. The structure is the lived experience of feeling misunderstood is disheartening insignificance surfacing with discordant affiliations, as resignation with resiliency emerges with inventive endeavors. Implications for nursing research and practice are presented.