Imagine that someone close to you is diagnosed with diabetes and will have to radically alter his diet and take insulin injections every day. How might this affect his personal identity? His tertiary...

Imagine that someone close to you is diagnosed with diabetes and will have to radically alter his diet and take insulin injections every day. How might this affect his personal identity? His tertiary identity? If he perceives this to be a serious threat to his identity, what phases might he experience, as reflected in Charmaz’s (1987) model of identity management?