Tag: chronic illness
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Fear of new symptoms in chronic illness: when every twinge spirals
When you already live with a long-term condition, every new sensation can take over the day. How to tell a new signal from your usual baseline, without dismissing your fear or your body.
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Health anxiety and chronic illness: when the illness is real
When health anxiety sits on top of a real diagnosis, the work is not challenging your fears. It is learning which signals from your body deserve action, and getting your life back from the vigilance.
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Bed-bound with chronic pain: the mental health work alongside the physical
When chronic pain keeps you in bed, the psychological work does not stop. On identity, grief, and what values-led living looks like when the room is the world.
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Grief and Chronic Illness: The Long Work of Living With a Changed Life
Chronic illness brings a grief no one sends a card for: the loss of the self you were. Here is why that loss is real, and how your values can help you live alongside it.
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Feeling Like a Stranger in Your Own Life: Identity and Chronic Illness
Chronic illness can make you feel like a stranger in your own life. Guest therapist Sarah Cosway on grief, identity, and rediscovering what makes you you.
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What progress looks like in therapy for chronic illness
Progress in therapy for chronic illness rarely arrives as a moment. It looks like the same life feeling different, with the condition still in it. A therapist on what to look for.
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Therapy for chronic illness: when recovery isn’t the goal
The work isn’t about making the condition smaller. It’s about helping you stop fighting your body, so the energy that was going into that fight becomes available for the life you want to live.
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When the struggle itself is the problem: willingness and chronic illness
The fight against a long-term condition can cost more than the symptoms do. Willingness offers a different place to put that energy, so you have more left for the life you want.
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Living by your values when chronic illness limits your body
Chronic illness can take your goals, but not your values. The difference between a goal and a value, why losing goals hurts, and how to keep living by what matters when your body has changed.
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Why acceptance isn’t resignation (when you have a chronic illness)
A clear look at what acceptance means in therapy for chronic illness: what gets misunderstood, what it actually involves, and what changes when the wrestle eases.
