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‘Life, Interrupted’ by Cancer Diagnosis at 22

By NPR Staff — 2012

This lovely, young cancer survivor, Suleika Jaouad, speaks candidly and with total compassion about the difficulty young people face in reaching out to young friends with cancer.

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How Social Support Contributes to Psychological Health

It is social support that builds people up during times of stress and often gives them the strength to carry on and even thrive.

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Kendra Cherry
2020
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What to Say When a Friend Is Struggling

We want to be supportive of our friends, colleagues, partners, and family members when they're having a hard time. But what does that actually look like?

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Shereen Marisol Meraji
2020
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Lean on Me

How to support a friend who’s been laid off.

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Heather Schwedel
2019
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Offering Help (Carefully) to Jobless Friends

Navigating a relationship with someone dealing with unemployment can be tricky. Here, some sage advice on how to approach the subject, and the things you can do that are productive for them during their search.

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Phyllis Korkki
2011
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Caught Between Young Kids and a Parent with Alzheimer’s, I Found a Lifeline on the Playground

My mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and decline were a painful and lonely journey, one that coincided with an otherwise unbearably hectic time. My two children were still in diapers.

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Meg Ounsworth Steere
2019
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My Friend Is Dating Someone Terrible, Or, Secrets of the Darth Vader Boyfriend

You can’t talk someone out of being in love with Darth Vader, and sadly, the worse it gets the more your friend might try to talk himself into trying to make it work because if there is a happy ending all the ways he’s had to abase himself to stay in the relationship will have been “worth it.

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Jennifer Peepas
2011
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The Dharma of the Princess Bride

In The Princess Bride, outcasts and loners find true friendship. Drawing on the classic film, Ethan Nichtern offers Buddhist teachings on how to make friends with yourself and others.

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Ethan Nichtern
2017
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6 Friends You Need in Your Life

Our relationships create who we are and who we’re becoming. So in this way, I was interested in thinking about how friendships transform us.

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Carolee Belkin Walker
2017
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