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“The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.”

Facts Suffering Acceptance Definitions Illness Denial

Book:People of the Lie

Source: People of the Lie

“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.”

“The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.”

Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

“The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.”

Ifs Humans Wells Looks Facts Age Lasts Human Beings Levels Illness Manage Fascinating Facts Of Life

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.”

Facts Pain Happiness Illness Disappointment Heal Tendencies Mars Norm One Love Discomfort Disturbance Continuum

Book:The continuum concept

Source: The continuum concept