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When Illness Forces You to Become Someone Else

My chronic illness means I can't do the hiking and traveling I built my whole identity around and I don't know who I am if I'm not an adventure person.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical limitations can feel like a betrayal of the self one believed they were meant to be.

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