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When Medical Rationing Becomes Self-Harm

I have been rationing my insulin for three months because I cannot afford the full prescription and I keep telling myself it will be fine but my vision is getting blurry.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The person is caught between immediate survival and long-term survival, forced into a slow form of self-destruction by economic constraints.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.