Background: Patients who suffered stroke can experience different obstacles for wellbeeing. The illness itself implicates symptoms such as tiredness, depression and various functional limitations. Surroundings can increase the feeling of discomfort when based on prejudices, insufficient care and problems in relations to significant others. Coping concerns finding ways to control different situations in order to reduce stress and discomfort. Aim: To through selfbiographies describe what prevents and promotes coping seen from a lifeworldperspective from individuals who suffered from stroke. Method: Qualitative content analysis of selfbiographies as described in Granheim and Lundman (2012).Result: The findings were sorted in two domains, labeled what prevents and promotes coping. Categories that prevents coping are “Lac of compliance and caring from personnel”, “To struggle against illness and surrounding”, “To feel shame about ones incapacities” and “Unwanted loneliness and isolation”. Categories that promotes coping are “Capacity to adaption”, “Capacity to handle feelings and identity” and “Proper rehabilitation”. These are further described in subcategories. Conclusion: The result indicates that healthcare concerning the patient can be more favorable if the lifeworld of the patient is given more focus and out of that perspective understand what promotes and prevents coping of this individual.