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Why Cancer Treatment Can Feel Worse Than the Disease

My chemotherapy is working but it makes me so sick I can barely function, and everyone says I should be grateful to be alive but I don't feel alive at all.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The cure has become indistinguishable from the illness, forcing you to question whether mere biological survival constitutes meaningful existence.

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