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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.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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

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