Amy Oestreicher
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An excerpt from My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful. Managing chronic illness can leave a person susceptible to emotional and mental health issues that can further exacerbate their physical symptoms. Post-traumatic stress disorder can often accompany…
An excerpt from My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful.
Managing chronic illness can leave a person susceptible to emotional and mental health issues that can further exacerbate their physical symptoms. Post-traumatic stress disorder can often accompany managing a physical illness, and often is the illness that doctors and surgeons can’t see. How do we find self-empowerment in the midst of both visible and invisible …
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Art therapy and the intersection between chronic illness and mental health
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I grew up thinking an “illness” was either a fever or croup. Illness was a stuffy nose -- a sick day, an excuse to miss a day of school. At 18 years old, “illness” took on an entirely different meaning.…
I grew up thinking an “illness” was either a fever or croup. Illness was a stuffy nose — a sick day, an excuse to miss a day of school. At 18 years old, “illness” took on an entirely different meaning. Illness meant waking up from a coma, learning that my stomach exploded, I had no digestive system, and I was to be stabilized with IV nutrition until surgeons could figure …
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PTSD was the illness I couldn’t see
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