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Learning to Accept (if Not Love) My Scar

By Steven Petrow — 2017

The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.

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The Psychosocial Side of Cancer

A cancer diagnosis brings a wealth of psychological challenges. In fact, adults living with cancer have a six-time higher risk for psychological disability than those not living with cancer.

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Suzanne M. Miller
2020
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The Top Mental Health Challenges Facing Students

Experts and researchers use terms like “epidemic” and “crisis” to characterize the mental health challenges currently facing American college students. Statistics back up these claims.

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Staff Writers
2021
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Crazy Good: How Mental Illnesses Help Entrepreneurs Thrive

Michael A. Freeman had long noticed that entrepreneurs seem inclined to have mental health issues. Freeman and California-Berkeley psychology professor Sheri Johnson decided to take a deeper look at the issue.

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Matt McFarland
2015
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Dear Therapist: I Survived Cancer, but Now I’m Afraid My Husband Resents Me

“For your husband, your illness may have made him acutely aware of not just your mortality, but also his own.”

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Lori Gottlieb
2019
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Types of Complementary Therapies

When you discuss a complementary therapy with your health care team and they agree that it is safe to try as part of your overall cancer care, this is called “integrative medicine.”

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Cancer.net
2021
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Living with Cancer: ‘My Symptoms Were Dismissed as Stress and Anxiety for a Year—By Then It Was Advanced’

Mary Dawson, 72, has been living with kidney cancer now for more than a decade, which may have been avoided if it was caught earlier

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Claudia Tanner
2020
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How I Learned to Cope with Cancer-Related Fatigue

Jelle Damhuis is a 2-time cancer survivor who most recently completed treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2018. He is now reintegrating back into the workplace and helping spread the word about cancer-related fatigue to patient groups around the world.

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Jelle Damhuis
2020
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For Queer Men of Color, Pressure to Have a Perfect Body Is About Race Too

For many of us, men with broad shoulders, narrow hips, taut muscles, and white skin — sun-kissed or pale under hot lights — became an ideal we couldn’t escape. We coveted images of these bodies like treasure, and they educated us in the rules of attraction.

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Naveen Kumar
2019
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Your Secret Weapon During Cancer Treatment? Exercise!

Don't stop moving. Research confirms that exercising can help you not just survive but thrive during and after cancer.

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Mayo Clinic Staff
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What Cancer Has Taught Me About Fear

Cancer patients deal daily with dread stirred by organisms produced by the body they attack.

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Susan Gubar
2020
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