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Physical Illness Quotes

“It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I’m just a number. I’m a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I’m seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn’t matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.”

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Book:Trace The Grace: A Memoir

Source: Trace The Grace: A Memoir

“They are taking the “victim” position in the triangle model. AVPs are internally tight and stiff. This can cause a number of physical issues, from fatigue to asthma.”

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Book:Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder

Source: Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder

“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.”

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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

“With a chronic disease, prognosis is really more of an agnosis; as long as a condition remains chronic, one simply has it; one can go into remission or experience relapse or return.”

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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

“I'll say it again - mental illness is a physical illness. You wouldn't consider going up to someone suffering from Alzheimers to yell, "Come on, get with it, you remember where you left your keys?" Let us shout it from the rooftops until everyone gets the message; depression has and nothing to do with having a bad day or being sad, it's a killer if not taken seriously.”

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Author:Ruby Wax