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When surgical changes alter your sense of self

My surgery was successful but now I look different and I don't recognize myself in the mirror and it's disturbing in a way I didn't expect.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Identity anchored in physical form can become destabilized when medical intervention changes the body's familiar landscape.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Surgery — preparation and recovery?”

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