- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disease Quotes
Illness, metaphor, and the will to endure.
This page pairs quotes about literal illness with quotes that use disease as a political metaphor - one speaker names debt as the single most corrosive force in a nation's history, another describes the private grief of a cancer diagnosis. Related reading includes Health.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Manic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manic depressive is a disease.
- Heart Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just that this is a disease, but what the disease means.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son is living proof that those like him can not only be treated, but can live lives free of the pain that plagued them and the disease that controlled them.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The March of Dimes turned a disease not nearly as prevalent as childhood cancer into a national crusade. Polio was not that widespread.
- Encompassing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
- Diseases
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis - all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020