TABLE 3.

Examples of quotations from categories in the area Memories of illness and hospital stay, questions Q1 and Q2

Category	Examples of quotation
Awareness of the illness	Extreme death anxiety Afraid of ending up on a respirator Effort and the perceptual sensations that it meant to try to sit on the edge of the bed Was physically incapable of moving on my own, even very basic movements
A feeling of lost connection to reality	I thought I knew what was going on, but in retrospect everything has blended into one The hallucinations were so severe that I was sure they were had happened in real life A nasty memory was that I woke up and thought I had been abducted and did not understand where I was That I had caused an accident which had led to worries that they died
Being cared in a dynamic environment	Other patients’ coughing and anxiety. Not pleasant to see someone [another patient] being ferried out, dead. The happiness of the staff when I woke up after having been on anesthesia for several weeks Isolated, the staff rationed their visits to the room