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How to prepare for an unpleasant experience

How to prepare for an unpleasant experience

Update: 2021-05-03
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When you have a health issue that requires surgery and a prolonged recovery period, you can feel a lot of anxiety and dread. How will you get through this time?


Psychologist Dan Gottlieb is very familiar with this situation – and those feelings, and offers some advice in his weekly conversation with WHYY’s Maiken Scott.

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