Chronic illness fundamentally shapes identity and how someone moves through the world—not as a temporary condition to overcome but as an ongoing reality that requires learning new relationships with your body, time, and what you can expect of yourself. Chronic illness identity resists both the pressure to perform wellness and the reduction of self to diagnosis.
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