We as a country are very good at responding to acute, short-term crises. When the crisis becomes chronic, we tend to withdraw.
Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.
I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.
Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.
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.
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.
If you have a chronic illness in America, there's a good chance you also hold a degree in Health Insurance 101, whether you want to or not.
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
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 believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition.
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.
The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.
Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.
We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.
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.
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
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.
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.
I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.
When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.
A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health.
I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.
Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.
It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.
Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.
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.
In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.
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.
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
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.
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.
Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.
"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."
A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.
...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.
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.
What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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.
What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.
I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough.
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.
Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
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.
Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.
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.
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