An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
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.
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.