When the Conditions Start With T: Tumors, Trauma, and the Time We Lose
Some griefs feel like war. Others feel like waiting. “T” holds both.In this hall, we hold invisible trauma, terminal news, and daily treatments that wear the soul as much as the body.
It’s the grief of timeline interruption, of who you were before—
and who you’re still trying to be.
These stories don’t need softening.
They need to be told as they are.
"See It. Name It. Stand Against It."
Grief and Traumatic Brain Injury: When the Mind Doesn’t Come Back the Same
TBI doesn’t just alter memory—it shifts personality, emotion, and identity. The grief is in the ghost that lingers: the version of you that existed *before* the impact.
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Grief and Tourette Syndrome: When Your Body Speaks Without Your Permission
Tourette’s isn’t just tics—it’s shame, misunderstanding, and constant control. The grief is in social spaces, in classroom stares, in every “why can’t you just stop?”
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Grief and Type 1 Diabetes: When Your Body Needs You to Be Its Caretaker
Type 1 isn’t just sugar levels—it’s vigilance. Alarms. Injections. Exhaustion. The grief is in the loss of automatic living. Nothing is casual. Nothing is without calculation.
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Grief and Thyroid Disorders: When Your Body’s Regulator Goes Rogue
The thyroid is small—but the chaos it causes is massive. Weight changes, brain fog, mood swings. The grief is in being dismissed, misdiagnosed, and feeling like a stranger in your own skin.
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Grief and TMJ Disorders: When Every Bite Feels Like a Battle
Temporomandibular joint disorders affect your jaw—but also your sleep, your smile, your meals. It’s quiet suffering, interrupted by grinding, popping, and the grief of lost ease.
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Grief and Testicular Cancer: When Masculinity Meets Mortality
Testicular cancer carries a double grief—for health *and* identity. You grieve your future, your body, your sense of self—and the silence men are told to keep around it.
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