Chronic Illness - Lived Experience

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On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
by: Ed Cohen
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar 4.05 avg rating — 1,153,940 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating 4.15 avg rating — 20,375 ratings
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Living With Long-term Illness: Essays on Hope, Healing & Mental Health
Living With Long-term Illness: Essays on Hope, Healing & Mental Health 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 3.98 avg rating — 76,136 ratings
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain 3.93 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer
In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer 4.20 avg rating — 760 ratings
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait 3.90 avg rating — 48,380 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals 4.42 avg rating — 5,110 ratings
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A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary
A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary 3.66 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Our Cancer Year
Our Cancer Year 3.91 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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Do “Something”: My Attempt at Nutritional Therapy to Minimize Long-Covid Symptoms
Do “Something”: My Attempt at Nutritional Therapy to Minimize Long-Covid Symptoms it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Invisible No More: Embracing Your Road to Recovery from Long Covid and Other Complex Chronic Illnesses
Invisible No More: Embracing Your Road to Recovery from Long Covid and Other Complex Chronic Illnesses 3.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,823 ratings
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Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature)
Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature) 3.87 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness 4.09 avg rating — 233,271 ratings
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A Time To Heal
A Time To Heal really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Not One of These Poems Is About You
Not One of These Poems Is About You 4.11 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System 4.32 avg rating — 463 ratings
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The Shutter of Snow
The Shutter of Snow 3.45 avg rating — 539 ratings
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Parenthesis
Parenthesis 4.14 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
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Green Migraine
Green Migraine 3.82 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Modern Nature
Modern Nature 4.33 avg rating — 1,775 ratings
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The Body Broken
The Body Broken 3.54 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Don't Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye
Don't Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Lifting the Bull: Overcoming Chronic Back Pain Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness
Lifting the Bull: Overcoming Chronic Back Pain Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying 4.02 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal 4.34 avg rating — 5,706 ratings
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Love and Surgery
Love and Surgery it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer 4.11 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
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The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves 3.62 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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Illness (The Art of Living Series)
Illness (The Art of Living Series) 3.94 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS
Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS 4.50 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics 3.90 avg rating — 629 ratings
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness 4.32 avg rating — 22,258 ratings
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The Unravelling: How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one
The Unravelling: How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one 4.70 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes
The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes 4.04 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir 4.15 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Between Gardens
Between Gardens 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Sound Mind: My Bipolar Journey From Chaos to Composure
Sound Mind: My Bipolar Journey From Chaos to Composure 4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Smiling in Slow Motion
Smiling in Slow Motion 4.56 avg rating — 240 ratings
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A Victory Garden for Trying Times
A Victory Garden for Trying Times 4.14 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Let Me Sleep Until This Is Just a Dream (Norwegian Literature)
Let Me Sleep Until This Is Just a Dream (Norwegian Literature) 3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings
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I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature 4.11 avg rating — 91 ratings
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On Being Ill
On Being Ill 3.98 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
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The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life
The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Deep in the Brain: Living with Parkinson's Disease
Deep in the Brain: Living with Parkinson's Disease 3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Survival Lessons
Survival Lessons 3.97 avg rating — 3,923 ratings
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The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis
The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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In the Land of Pain
In the Land of Pain 3.70 avg rating — 554 ratings
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All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache 3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Empathy Exams
The Empathy Exams 3.67 avg rating — 15,589 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,571 ratings
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The Camera My Mother Gave Me
The Camera My Mother Gave Me 3.40 avg rating — 1,429 ratings
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The Language of Water
The Language of Water 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder 3.22 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Epileptic
Epileptic
by: David B.
3.89 avg rating — 13,738 ratings
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One-Breasted Woman
One-Breasted Woman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Shaking Hands with Death
Shaking Hands with Death 4.47 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
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Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning 4.27 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Truth about Chronic Pain
The Truth about Chronic Pain 3.44 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief
The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief 3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings