Past consultation with a mental health professional (odds ratio : 2.15 95% confidence interval : 1.42–3.26) and perceived lack of support from friends (OR: 2.33 95% CI: 1.33–3.99) and faculty (OR: 2.15 95% CI: 1.41–3.28) were the most significant predictors of distress. RESULTS: 57.5% of the interns reported psychological distress, with 39.8% having moderate‑to‑severe distress. Univariate analysis was done using Chi‑square test, unpaired t‑test, and ANOVA, while multivariate analysis was conducted using binary logistic regression. were evaluated using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, Fear of COVID‑19 Scale, and semi‑structured questionnaires. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross‑sectional online survey was conducted using snowball sampling among 764 medical interns across India, who. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of psychological distress in medical interns during the pandemic and examine the factors influencing it. Keywords: Chaos narratives restoration narratives lived chaos mute illness chaotic bodyīACKGROUND: The COVID‑19 pandemic has negatively impacted the mental health of health‑care workers worldwide. The paper studies the concept of chaos and its aid in analyzing an illness narrative as narratives depicting a clear picture of illness-induced trauma and its interventions in the daily life of people. The story weaves around the four lives, stringing the plot by silences and voices of madness, as it attempts to put together a tale of love, trauma, illness and chaos. As illustrated by Frank, the trauma and chaos in the narrative unfurl through the daily events of the household when mediation through speech is barely possible. The narrator becomes the observer of the story from a ‘distance’ that helps him gain a reflective grasp over the ‘lived chaos’ of his life. The narrative articulates the chaos of life through the gaps in communication. The incidence of silences along with the elisions of communication is a pathway to the expression and recognition of chaos, both interior and exterior.

Em and the Big Hoom re-counts the happenings in a family, taking a sudden turn, after the mother (Em) gets diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Frank’s description of the chaos narrative ascertains its feature of non-communicability of the constant conflict raging inside the patient’s head.

The paper explores the world of a family, marred by the trauma and chaos of an illness, in the novel, Em and the Big Hoom (2012) written by Jerry Pinto with cross references to the concept of chaos narratives described by Arthur W Frank in his work, The Wounded Storyteller (1995). The study brings to focus the ways through which the author imparts the chaos in the narrative, both by using words and non-verbal methods. Chaos narratives depict the absence of a narrative order in the text and an adherence to all the features of an ‘anti-narrative’.

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