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When chronic illness changes your role in relationships

I used to be the person everyone came to for help and now I can barely manage my own life most days, but I don't know who I am if I'm not the capable one.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Illness disrupts core identity patterns, forcing a reckoning with self-worth beyond productivity and caretaking.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Chronic illness and identity?”

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