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When Illness Brings Care You Do Not Want to Lose

I have been pretending to be sicker than I am to get more attention from my partner since my diagnosis, and now I do not know how to stop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Serious illness can create psychological incentives that complicate recovery and honest self-assessment.

Ideas that help explain it
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