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We focus on three pervasive themes that were threaded throughout the interviews: battling and fighting; the self under attack and journeying through a physical and emotional landscape.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Discussion: This secondary analysis of qualitative research interviews enriches our understanding of the articulation of emotion in motor neurone disease and adds to the literature on metaphor in chronic illness. Of particular interest is how the metaphors used contrasted with other conditions in the relative absence of metaphors of \u2018fighting\u2019 the disease. Furthermore, we analyse the ways in which participants used metaphors to give voice to emotions that are extremely difficult to articulate in \u2018literal\u2019 language, and how, in doing so, they blurred the distinction between \u2018physical\u2019 symptoms and \u2018emotional\u2019 states. 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