The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness. — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. — Earl Of Derby Copy Share Image
I have found out who are my real friends, thanks to the illness and hospitals. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
“The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
It's so important that we figure out a way of moving beyond the stigma that still exists around treatment for mental health. — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
“I don't think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient's illness. How would I deal with… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
There isa stigma associated with incontinence, so many people never mention it to their doctors or seek treatment. In reality, fecal incontinence… — Brad Davis Copy Share Image
The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in… — Samantha Abeel Copy Share Image
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth. ... Can waiting by definition… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
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