The emergence of a chronic disease can disrupt everyday meanings and social relations and makes a person uncertain about the fundamental dimensions of their identity. These disintegrated contents must be restructured, which process builds up the illness narratives. Illness narratives are stories that patients tell primarily about their experiences related to the illness and not simply about the illness process and treatment. With the examination of these narratives, the patients’ points of view and experiences with their illnesses become more and more understandable for professionals. Thus, it is an increasingly researched area, which we would like to expand in Hungary as well. Our present study aims to explore the illness narratives of people living with type 1 or 2 diabetes (10-12 people per group) using semi-structured interviews. The interview questions are from the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI). To analyse the answers, the grounded theory content analysis method will be used. The method of grounded theory is suitable for looking for common and different psychological characteristics in the narratives of the target groups without prior hypotheses. The current study is part of a longer research process. We are currently collecting data online, using a questionnaire among people living with diabetes. In the meantime, we are recruiting participants for the interviews, which would start in January. Although we do not have concrete results yet, by the time of the conference we will certainly have presentable, illustrative results and conclusions.