One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with...

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or...

Ve o hastalık,ey Hamlet,o korkunç hastalık belki düşünce, belki içe bakış değil midir?Yoksa sen,yapmak yerine,yapmak istemediklerini ve yapmak zorunda olduklarını düşünen o adamlar familyasının hüzünlü kahramanı değil misin? Yoksa sen kelimeleri, ki onlar dişidir,eylemlere,ki onlar...

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You’d see Jesus on the cross, and you’d see a dude getting stabbed in the...

Being sick successfully is not included in society’s panoply of worthy goals.

Life is a terminal illness.

That prospect is deeply troubling, because infectious illness is a genie that can be very hard to put back into its bottle. It may kill fewer people in one fell swoop than a raging flood...

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person – I think all serious illnesses do.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Nothing worked. This blazing pain seemed only to be getting worse.

You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.

Two weeks until your cure” she says finally. “Sixteen days” I say, but in my head I’m counting: Seven days. Seven days until I’m free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial...

It was a dead hole, smelling of synthetic leather and disinfectant, both of which odors seemed to emanate from the torn scratched material of the seats that lined the three walls. It smelled of the...

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

It isn’t discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It’s this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain – and it’s known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn’t death that’s the disease.

Severe isn’t a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns…No one responds ‘severe’ when someone asks how her cold is.In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to ‘How’s...

I can’t do that because I have to pick up the kids, and run my business, and … and … who’s got time for fun? Are you insane?” If you don’t have time for fun,...

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier.

I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room, eating our meals together, most of us sleeping in the chairs every night....

Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet...

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Sometimes there’s nothing you can do. […] Sometimes they don’t have enough to fight with.

I mean, that’s at least in part why I ingested chemical waste – it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column...

The day comes in slowly to those who are ill. The night has separated them from the sleepers, who return to them like strangers from a distant land, full of clumsy preparations for the living,...

Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of...

Qualities of a Good Nurse: Go,” I said.”1. Doesn’t pun on your disability,” Isaac said.”2. Gets blood on the first try,” I said.”Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a...

They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve tothink otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put...

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even...

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

What if…the doctors couldn’t find anything wrong? What if I was over-exaggerating the pain, weakness, and weird sensations?

Well, not really fall apart.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer...

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind…

I don’t think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient’s illness. How would I deal with the kind of news I’d given Mr. Walters?

The ability to recognise and respect individual differences is the beginning of successful relationship

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions....

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev’s searching fingertips. Win’s heartbeat…the pulse that sustained his universe.

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl’s health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way...

I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn’t stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son’s sickness,...

Part of his growing process is he’s got to learn to play through sickness and illness. I expect him to be 30 percent better by [today ] anyway, but he’s got to learn to play...

Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given year. That means millions of Americans are totally batshit.but having perused the various tests available that they...

Doctors are great–as long as you don’t need them.