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When serious illness shatters your sense of invincibility

I used to think I was invincible and now after this cancer diagnosis I feel like my whole identity was built on a lie.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Confronting mortality forces a complete reckoning with the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we can control.

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