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Why do I feel guilty about getting sick when it wasn't my fault

I am three weeks out from surgery and everyone keeps saying how great I look but I feel like I am drowning in this weird guilt about being sick in the first place.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Recovery forces a confrontation with the arbitrary nature of suffering and our deep need to assign meaning to meaningless events.

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