Periagoge
Scenario

Why Losing Smell and Taste Feels Like Losing Joy

I can't smell anything since COVID and food tastes like cardboard but everyone expects me to be grateful I'm alive and I don't know how to mourn this loss that feels invisible.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

An invisible loss challenges assumptions about what grief is acceptable and how sensory experience shapes meaning.

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