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Chronic illness: don’t struggle in silence, Hong Kong’s 300 support groups tell city’s 1.4 million sufferers

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At a health exhibition in Wan Chai, visitors crowd around a “clinic for self-diagnosis”– a wall that lists a ream of common ailments. There is no doctor or nurse on site to consult.The conditions are not all exactly medical – they include forgetfulness, sloppiness and cellphone addiction. Patients can diagnose themselves according to the details given, and wrap coloured strings around knobs on the wall, each shade representing a source of help they usually turn to, such as parents or friends…

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