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How progressive illness can require grieving your former physical self

My chronic illness has progressed and I can't do the hiking and climbing that used to define who I was and I don't know who I am without those things.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Chronic conditions can demand mourning previous capabilities while learning to find meaning within new limitations.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cumulative grief — multiple losses?”

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