Dr. Ford on Emotional Health: Double Mastectomy and the Shame Factor
By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D.
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"Most women feel as you do when faced with the loss of a body part that is tied so inextricably to your sense of yourself as a woman," Dr. Ford writes to Katie, who carries the BRCA1 gene. "Your mother clearly never recovered her sense of herself as a beautiful, sexual woman after her surgery."