Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
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.
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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.
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