When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head and get into my heart. And it just sounds like an easy thing - it was difficult at first - to truly recognize moment to moment how fortunate I am.
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.
My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.
I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.
Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African or Chinese genes. When people move from low-risk to high-risk areas, disease rates skyrocket as they adopt Western diets and lifestyles.
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.
If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.