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How chronic illness can create resentment toward healthy people's problems

Some days I feel angry at healthy people for complaining about minor inconveniences and other days I'm angry at myself for becoming someone who ranks suffering. This illness is turning me into someone I don't recognize.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Comparative suffering becomes both a coping mechanism and a source of moral conflict.

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“Where Are You with Chronic illness — living with a long condition?”

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