As a departure for the study, statistics regarding the increased experiences of illness, especially psychic, among children and youth, were presented. With inspiration from Maxwell´s (2013) interactive design, and guided from the perspectives of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the study was placed into the lived everyday world of the participants. Phenomenological, narrative interviews with six youths were conducted through the interview technique direct scribing (Martin, 1998). Moreover, as the title of the thesis indicates, the general aim was to reach knowledge regarding the increased illness among children and youth by learning from the other, a group of youth with experiences arriving in Sweden as unaccompanied refugee children, helpfully to share their views and experiences. The study’s specific aim was to gain knowledge from the unaccompanied refugee children’s experiences and thoughts regarding health/illness and obstacles and possibilities for experience health in their group home (HVB) in Sweden and their country of origin. The plot in the narratives of the youth was built up by five sequences; orientation, relief, dislocation, restitution, and participation, recognition, and agency. The results showed barriers to health, such as impersonal relations, loneliness, and dislocation caused by language and cultural change. Possibilities for health were described by a healthy lifestyle, family, dialogue, and positive relations. The reciprocity from the relationships was also described of the youth as the main source to help the youth manage the process from the vulnerability and chaos they felt when arriving in Sweden to an agency and a feeling of ability in order to participate in their new society. The following interpretation and discussion tried to make the result transferable by pointing at changing historical and cultural views regarding health and illness. The feelings of lack of belonging and potential stigmatizing individuals could experience due to different categorizations such as ethnicity and medical diagnoses, are discussed with the concepts of the other. Finally, drawing on Levinas, the possibilities of breaking the categorical monological thinking through dialogues in face-to-face encounters were discussed together with Ricoeur`s ethics pointing at changing views regarding society and the Other. Further research and practice were also discussed.