The Fine Line between Empathy and Pity
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3 min readOct 25, 2019
Everyone reacts differently when they find out that I have been diagnosed with a chronic illness.
It must come as a shock, to anyone, to hear that someone they care about is dealing with something major- whether it is a chronic illness, cancer, divorce etc. You can’t prepare for it, and for those of us on this side, there is no good way to soften a blow of this magnitude.
