the possibility of what psychologists describe as “post-traumatic growth.” My illness has humbled and humiliated and schooled me, offering knowledge that might otherwise have taken decades for my pre-diagnosis, self-absorbed twenty-two-year-old self to accrue. But that old Hemingway saw—“the world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places”—is only true if you live the possibilities of your newly acquired knowledge.
