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How illness triggers the search for environmental causes

After my cancer diagnosis I became obsessed with figuring out what caused it and I realize I am driving myself crazy trying to assign blame to specific exposures.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The human need to make meaning of suffering through causal explanation can become its own source of torment when answers remain elusive.

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“Where Are You with Environmental health — toxins and exposures?”

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