Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
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.
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.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.