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The grief of a diagnosis

A diagnosis brings a small death—the loss of the future you imagined, the identity you thought you held—and this grief deserves to be felt as fully as any other loss. Moving through this grief, rather than around it, eventually opens space for adaptation and even unexpected meaning.

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