If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.
But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long after the first carrier has succumbed.
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.
At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.
We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.
As we address extreme weather and pandemic disease, we will understand and overcome racism and bigotry so we can safely and together do space.
It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
I think life is too sacred to ever take it in any circumstances, even for the cure of a disease or something like that.
The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
...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.
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.
There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.
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.
Climate change is a fact, disrupting the environment, and also affecting economies, disease vectors, and political unrest worldwide.
My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.
Simply restricting portions of the same disease-causing foods does not resolve the symptoms of toxic hunger.
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.
I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.
I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.
People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.
If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with shame and guilt.
The Center for Disease Control's bio-monitoring program has found that the majority of Americans carry residues of BPA in their bodies.
Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.
The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.
Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.
we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!
Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.
Either we change our ways, especially the United States, or we will continue to lead the world in heart disease and cancer.
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Preventing cardiovascular disease can help free up critical resources for treating HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.
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