Practice question · Multiple choice
Chronic illness forces identity and social-role renegotiation in a way acute illness usually does not. Why does duration change the psychological task?
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- Ask what "getting back to normal" means when there is no end date.
- Biographical disruption is the term for it.
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A. Because an indefinite condition has to be built into who one is
Why
Temporariness is what protects identity. When the condition is permanent the old self is not waiting on the other side, so the work is reconstruction rather than recovery.
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