Feeling Overwhelmed: A Parsesciencing Inquiry

Abstract

Feeling overwhelmed is a universal humanuniverse living experience of living quality. The scholar engaged in Parsesciencing, a unique mode of inquiry within the humanbecoming paradigm. The inquiry stance was: What is the discerning extant moment of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling overwhelmed? Historians were 12 individuals who were receiving or providing services at a metropolitan HIV/AIDS center. The major discovery of this Parsesciencing inquiry was the discerning extant moment: Feeling overwhelmed is arduous burdensome discomfort with perplexing immobilization surfacing with fervently pursuing repose.

Review of 2007-2020 Humanbecoming Guided Studies and Investigations

“…Since its introduction in 2016, six investigations using Parsesciencing have been conducted (Baumann, 2020; Bunkers, 2016; Doe, 2020; Kabigting, 2019; PetersonLund & Bunkers, 2018; Shaughnessy, 2020). These focused on living experiences such as deliberating what is important (Baumann, 2020), feeling unsure (Bunkers, 2016), hope (Doe, 2020), feeling overwhelmed (Kabigting, 2019), suffering (PetersonLund & Bunkers, 2018), and feeling ashamed (Shaughnessy, 2020). Bunkers’ (2016) inquiry into feeling unsure was the first investigation published in Nursing Science Quarterly using Parsesciencing.…”

“…Insights from several humanbecoming studies and investigations over the past decade have emerged within the theme of persistent struggling is persevering with urgent intensity (Parse, 2003). These investigations have included having faith (Doucet, 2008), feeling fear (Baumann, 2009), doing the right thing (Smith, 2012), feeling overwhelmed (Condon, 2014; Kabigting, 2019), difficulty telling the truth (Baumann, 2015), being dedicated (Baumann & Ganzer, 2016), deliberating what is important (Baumann, 2020), suffering (Baumann, 2016; Duarte-Quilao & Maillard Strüby, 2018; PetersonLund & Bunkers, 2018; Pilkington & Kilpatrick, 2008), feeling ashamed (Shaughnessy, 2020), and more. In these varied investigations of universal humanuniverse living experiences, individuals described in their own words ways of “pressing onward, listening to their desires, taking control, honoring and staying with their priorities, and assuming responsibility for decisions, as they drove to accomplish what was desired” (Parse, 2003, p. 98).…”

“…Individuals in these studies spoke of haunting possibilities (Baumann, 2009), angst (Smith, 2012), arduous instability (Condon, 2014), and oppressive disquietude (Shaughnessy, 2020). Yet while struggling through dark times, these individuals all-at-once considered uplifting aspirations (PetersonLund & Bunkers, 2018), experienced inspirational moments (Baumann, 2014), showed fortitude amid adversity (Doucet, 2008), and fervently pursued repose (Kabigting, 2019). Parse (2003) found that individuals in the investigations she reviewed within the theme of persistent struggling is persevering with urgent intensity “immersed themselves and dug in, creating different ways of moving with a sense of security and hope, even though the unexpected loomed” (p. 98).…”

“…Parse (2003) found that individuals in the investigations she reviewed within the theme of persistent struggling is persevering with urgent intensity “immersed themselves and dug in, creating different ways of moving with a sense of security and hope, even though the unexpected loomed” (p. 98). In the investigations included in this review as well, participants and historians found ways to see the buoyant potentiality of situations (Condon, 2014), searched for emerging moments of peace (Kabigting, 2019), and found meaning in revered involvements (Smith, 2012).…”

The Magic of Surprise

“…“Transforming is shifting the view of the familiar–unfamiliar, the changing of change in coconstituting anew in a deliberate way with the unexplainable mystery of humanuniverse” (Parse, 2021, p. 55). Kabigting (2021), in a humanbecoming inquiry on feeling overwhelmed, described transforming in the concept of “fervently pursuing repose as the shifting view of the familiar-unfamiliar. .…”