41 quotes found
“Mental illness People assume you arent sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways youre hurting. My heart is a prison of Have you tried?s Have you tried...”
“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”
“Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.”
“Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never remove the pain, will you still trust Me?”
“It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every ...”
“She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.”
“I certainly dont buy into the idea that positive attitudes can somehow mysteriously directly influence physical health outcomes.”
“Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.”
“Depression affects almost 80% of migraine sufferers at one time or another. People with migraine, especially chronic migraine, also are more likely to experience intense anxiety and to have suicida...”
“I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.”
“People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days,' [my mom] said quie...”
“I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.”
“The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me.”
“The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was accustomed to using them. But, I figured that after a few hours of sitting in a wheelchair...I woul...”
“The weekend was a much-needed breath of fresh air; Monday always seemed to not only take that breath right back, but add a few extra pounds to my shoulders as well.”
“Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI”
“My love has saved me. It wraps strong arms around me when I cry with despair;it gives me the routine of a working week to lend vicarious structure to my shapeless days. It brings me daily laughter,...”
“By staying, by shirking the responsibility and effort of leaving, by continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home-do I do wrong?”
“And all my ethical reasoning crumbles to ash in the sheer fact of his presence. Because together, even in darkness, we light up a room; because the clotted guilt inside me breaks up and disperses b...”
“Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS -”
