You'd think it would help, reading about a condition that more severe than one's own, but sometimes it makes things oddly worse. Wakefield got diagnosed with ALS, as an active 33 year old. The book tells the story of her deterioration into near immobility over the ensuing year. About a year after publication, she died.
Okay, so, yay, I don't have ALS, but it really brings home the helplessness of having a major diagnosis. Wow, you think, it's possible to get really really screwed, with no warning, by your own body.
Anyway, I highly recommend the book. It's really more the story of everything she did during that year of massive deterioration, some of which involved panicking and being depressed, but not nearly all of it.
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