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Those include physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; parental mental illness, substance dependence, incarceration; parental separation or divorce; or domestic violence.
If I were to ask how many people in this room grew up with a family member who suffered from mental illness, I bet a few hands would go up.
We now tend to die of cancer and heart disease, and what that means is that many of us will have a long period of chronic illness at the end of our lives.
Now, I would no more recommend you have an affair than I would recommend you have cancer, and yet we know that people who have been ill often talk about how their illness has yielded them a new perspective.
He said that all people with this illness died, and if any of you have seen the film "Lorenzo's Oil," there's a scene when the protagonist kind of rolls down the stairway crying and bemoaning the fate of his son, and that's exactly how we felt about Jenesis.
There's some 3,000 people a year in the United States alone, perhaps 10 times that number worldwide, who continue to die of this illness because the medicines slow down the progression but they don't halt it.
They have a terminal illness, their mother just died, they have a child with special needs and they can't talk about it.
They are places for acute trauma and treatable illness.
There are already record numbers of us living with chronic and terminal illness, and into ever older age.
Now, throughout much of the recent history of medicine, we've thought about illness and treatment in terms of a profoundly simple model.
In fact, it turns out that the natural world gives us a sense of how one might think about illness in a radically different way, rather than disease, medicine, target.
What's nice about this scheme, this hierarchical scheme building upwards rather than downwards, is that it allows us to think about illness as well in a somewhat different way.
You know, there's a popular trope out there that the reason we haven't had the transformative impact on the treatment of illness is because we don't have powerful-enough drugs, and that's partly true.
I mean, what if you have an illness or an infection?
Others lose it after an accident or during an illness.
Obsessions can manifest as fears of contamination and illness, worries about harming others, or preoccupations with numbers, patterns, morality, or sexual identity.
But because it's a mental illness, it can be a lot harder to understand than, say, high cholesterol.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, it takes the average person suffering with a mental illness over ten years to ask for help.
Open conversations about mental illness help erode stigma and make it easier for people to ask for help.
He also believed that a woman's womb was a live animal that could wander around in her body and cause illness.
It’s a nuisance, but that bump is an important signal that you’re protected by your immune system, your body’s major safeguard against infection, illness, and disease.
An illness in the family and later an injury to me had long made clear that growing old could not be assumed.
During the months of her illness, though, her dedication to the expedition never wavered, and I made a promise to carry out her final journey.
But it wasn't until high school, through the Human Genome Project, that I realized I wasn't alone in trying to connect our unique genetic ancestry to our potential health, wellness and illness.
I completely lost my sight because of extended illness, and with it, I lost the opportunity to see this plot and the opportunity to do my physics.
They're falling into illness and depression.
The problem with the theory of hysteria or psychogenic illness is that it can never be proven.
Living with this illness has taught me that science and medicine are profoundly human endeavors.
Maybe you face some kind of inequality, or you've come across an injustice of some kind, sometimes an illness strikes, or you're born in some way disadvantaged, or perhaps underprivileged.
I left the hamster wheel of work and life to join my sister on that lonely island of illness and healing.
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