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3 Hacks for Dealing with Difficult Doctors and Medical Systems as a Chronically Ill Person

Chronically ill or medically complex patients face all kinds of discrimination and uncooperative attitudes from our medical system. This especially goes for ...

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Cerebral Palsy: How to Support Your Child

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the name given to a group of disorders that affect a person’s balance, mobility, and posture and is caused by a brain injury that ...

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How to Support a Loved One with a Traumatic Brain Injury

If someone you know has had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) knowing what to do to help them during their rehabilitation can be hard and the road to their ...

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How to Survive Survivor’s Guilt

At 15, I beat cancer. The treatment worked, there was no more evidence of the disease, and I was starting to feel better physically. But mentally, I was a ...

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10 Ways to Cope With Grief During the Holidays

Although the holidays are usually a happy time of year, they can be painful for people who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Things like toxic ...

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So You’ve Just Received an Adult ADHD Diagnosis. Now What?

On Monday 26th September, 2022, I received an adult ADHD diagnosis. For the first time in my life, things started to make sense as to why I function the way I ...

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Parenting with Chronic Fatigue: 11 Ways to Support Your Kids (and Yourself)

Parenting can be a rollercoaster of emotions and leave you worn out. Add a chronic illness to that, and you can find yourself one very stressed and exhausted ...

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4 Nonvisual Shopping Tips for Blind and Low Vision People

If you're a blind person or have low vision, these nonvisual shopping tips can make finding holiday gifts or daily essentials easier. It’s that time of year ...

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How to Create Realistic Media Portrayals of People with Bipolar Disorder

Often conflated with dissociative identity disorder, bipolar disorder (BD), or manic depression, is one of the most widely misunderstood and wrongly portrayed ...

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4 Tips That Help Me Cope with Shoulder Limitations

I have been thinking lately about how far I have come in six years of living with shoulder limitations.  Six years ago, I had just stepped down from the ...

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