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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

By Jane E. Brody — 2007

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

Read on www.nytimes.com

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15 Secrets of People Who Can’t Work Because of an Illness

If you have a chronic illness, you may know what it feels like to be a “full-time patient.

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Paige Wyant
2017
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10 Steps for Coping with a Chronic Condition

It pays to organize your approach to heart disease or any chronic medical problem.

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Harvard Health Publishing
2017
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9 Common Types of Guilt People with Chronic Illness Experience

If someone were to ask you what the hardest part of living with chronic illness is, they might expect you to respond with one of the physical symptoms you experience, or perhaps how this symptom affects your ability to do certain activities.

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Paige Wyant
2018
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7 Tips for Making Peace with Chronic Pain and Illness

New ideas for living well, even if our health is less than ideal.

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Toni Bernhard J.D.
2018
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The Surprising Impact Chronic Illness Can Have on Your Social Life—And How to Deal

If you are like the millions of Americans who have a chronic illness (a disease like fibromyalgia, diabetes, or MS that often has no cure and requires ongoing treatment), you're probably well-familiar with the medical side of your illness.

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Emily Laurence
2019
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10 Strategies to Try When You’re Sick of Being Sick

After 15 years of chronic illness and even after writing a book titled How to Be Sick, I still can feel sick of being sick. (When I use the word “sick,” I’m including chronic pain.) If you’re as intimately familiar as I am with sick of being sick, you know how unpleasant it feels.

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Toni Bernhard
2016
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20 Tips for Living Well with Chronic Pain and Illness

To celebrate the release of my new book, How To Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide, I’ve made a list of 20 tips to help with the health challenges all us face at one time or another in life.

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Toni Bernhard
2015
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Supporting a Spouse Through a Health Challenge

If you have suddenly been put into the role of caregiver, what should you do—and how can you stay strong while you do it?

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Johns Hopkins Medicine staff
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Chronic Illness and Relationships

When romantic partners are caregivers.

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Katie Willard Virant
2020
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In Sickness and in Health: Making Love Last While Living with Chronic Illness

Keep these tips in mind when you’re trying to maintain a healthy relationship while one or both of you are living with chronic illness.

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Kirsten Schultz
2019
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