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Why gratitude feels impossible after trauma

Every time someone tells me how grateful I should be that my cancer is in remission, I want to scream because they don't understand how scared I still am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Others' expectations of appropriate emotional responses can become another burden for those already carrying invisible weight.

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