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How to cope when illness takes away your core abilities

I survived the stroke but lost my ability to speak clearly and I do not know how to be myself when words were everything to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Losing capacities that feel essential to selfhood forces a painful reconstruction of what it means to be human.

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“Where Are You with Acute illness and recovery?”

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