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When survival doesn't match recovery narratives

I finished cancer treatment six months ago and everyone wants me to be grateful and positive, but I feel angry and changed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Post-trauma identity can resist cultural scripts about resilience when actual psychological transformation doesn't align with expected gratitude.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Life transitions as identity events?”

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