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Why recovery can feel like losing hard-won wisdom

My illness taught me what really matters but now that I am better everyone expects me to care about trivial things again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The clarity that suffering can bring often feels incompatible with the demands and distractions of ordinary life.

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