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The Cost of Being Too Resilient In Life

Are you a strong person? Be careful. That strength can come at a serious cost.

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E.B. Johnson
Dec 12, 2021
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I still remember the first time I experienced a real health disaster in my life. I was away at college and got hospitalized for 5 days in a town where I had no family and only a few friends. My kidneys were a mess, and I was running a fever of 105˙. After almost a week of painkillers and intravenous antibiotics,…

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