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I have only been on short term disability so I know that differently colors my experience. There was a small degree of shame, but I could offset it by reminded myself that I had paid into disability and that I was getting the treatment I needed to get off disability. I imagine the shame would have been greater if I had needed long term disability.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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