Halina Adams
@maeflowers
Halina Adams
To have a poorly understood disease is to be brought up against every flaw in the U.S. health care system; to collide with the structural problems of a late-capitalist society that values productivity more than health; and to confront the philosophical problem of conveying an experience that lacks an accepted framework.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
To become chronically ill is not only to have a disease that you have to manage, but to have a new story about yourself, a story that many people refuse to hear—because it is deeply unsatisfying, full of fits and starts, anger, resentment, chasms of unruly need.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived or life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred,
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