It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.
It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.
It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
When something is troubling me, people know about it.
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.
When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.