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About Depression
Psychiatric symptoms are very common in Wolfram syndrome patients. Researches on WS report that, many times, suicide attempts happen impulsively, in a moment of feeling extremely unhappiness. Changes in character, mood and variable in expression are also considered a consequence of WS gene. As a Wolfram patient, I have already…...
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My History with Diabetes
There I was, a small 4-year-old child, lying in a hospital bed. Lost, afraid, anguished, and without understanding what was happening to me and around me, I just sought to look at my parents and seek reassurance. The days went by in the hospital, and I understood a little more…...
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My History with Hearing Loss
What takes a 13-year-old to accept and believe that she has a hearing loss? At first I thought I had deficit of attention and that when someone talked to me and I did not understand, it was because I was distracted. Until these “distractions” became more frequent and caught my…...
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My History with Vision Loss
I remember when the teacher put me in the back row of the classroom because of the seating chart which dictated where each student would sit in class. It was from then on that I began to notice my visual difficulty, since I could not see the board sitting at…...
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Visit to St. Louis
Certainly, St. Louis has become an extremely important city in my life because it is where I met people who welcomed me with love and open arms. These people struggle fiercely every day for a cause that, unfortunately, affects me and people they love. Well, who am I talking about?…...
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