Top 1200 Chronic Illness Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

I have successfully dealt with my dependence and my chronic pain issues. I ask that my privacy and that of my family be respected on this health issue.

Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

One of the patients that really stands out for me was a middle-aged woman who actually had HIV in the early days, and helping her kind of come to terms with that. She had rather late-stage illness, but just helping her, sort of cope with the challenges of the disease and the infections and all that, but also her social issues, like, coming out to her family about the illness, and a very religious family.

I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

It turns out the most powerful way we can turn the tide on chronic disease is something we have been doing for millennia: That is walking.

Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.

Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick house and there was no rhyme or reason in it), he saw a long procession, deformed in body, warped in mind, some with illness of the flesh, weak hearts or weak lungs, and some with illness of the spirit, languor of will, or craving for liquor. At that moment he felt a holy compassion for them all. …The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough.

As anyone in chronic pain will be able to tell you, it can take a massive toll on your mental as well as physical wellbeing.

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.

Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.

We are in an era of chronic insecurity and growing inequalities. In that context, we need to have new mechanisms for income distribution which give people a sense of security.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.

For cancer patients like me, and for others who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illnesses, natural disasters don't put health on the back burner.

We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.

Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

The new disease was named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the NFL fervently and repeatedly denied that such a thing had anything to do with the league or its players.

In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening of telomeres.

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.

We as a country are very good at responding to acute, short-term crises. When the crisis becomes chronic, we tend to withdraw.

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.

At its worst, there's just virtually no organ system in your body that's not thrown out of kilter in some way by chronic psychological stress.

The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.

Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

I believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially. I am thankful for everything I have spiritually. I thank God for allowing me to experience these things, even the experiences that may not seem so positive, such as developing an illness. I may not understand why I have the illness, but I sense that it is there for a purpose, and so I thank God for it. I ask Him to allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness so that I can see the good that comes from everything.