The Impact of Despair
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Illness can make people feel hopeless – which can in turn affect their prognosis.
Psychologist Dan Gottlieb knows this first hand. He recently went through a period of serious, prolonged illness, and reflects on the emotion of despair in this conversation with WHYY’s Maiken Scott.
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