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How to process feelings of bodily betrayal before surgery

My doctor says I need surgery but I cannot shake the feeling that my body is betraying me after I spent years learning to trust it again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The narrative of the body as ally conflicts with the reality of the body as vulnerable organism.

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