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When others police your grief over partial loss

Everyone keeps telling me to be grateful I didn't lose my sight completely, but I'm furious about what I did lose and I feel like a terrible person for not being thankful.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Being told how to feel about our own suffering adds the burden of shame to legitimate grief, complicating the already difficult work of adaptation.

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