“Incurable, hopeless, excessive, organic, ill: this is the language of chronic disease, of the static bodies it indexes and the defective temporalities it engenders. The modality of the chronic, then, is less safely habitual than the compromised, the unconjugated, the "would" in the sense of being able or unable to realize one's will.” Mental IllnessDisabilityChronic IllnessAbleismDisability QuotesDisability StudiesMental Illness QuotesChronic Illness QuotesPhysical Illness Book:Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century Source: Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century