People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present.
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.
When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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