#chronic

I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#boswell #chronicler #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #sidekicks

The 40-hour work week, long considered the gold standard, has quietly and insidiously stretched into 50 to 60 hours. Despite this accepted practice, social commentators and the average person agree that functioning at such a pace can't possibly be good for one's mental or physical health. /So I ask you: if the expanded work-week isn't healthy for someone in good physical condition, how can it possibly be acceptable for someone with a chronic illness? Quite simply, it's not. ↗

— Rosalind Joffe

#chronic-illness #mental-health

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#awareness #been #chronic #disease #education

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#cancers #chronic #dad #ended #had

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#blood #cells #chronic #i #leukemia

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of preventable, chronic diseases ever in the history of mankind has occurred as a direct result of modern medicine and scientific reductionism. Modern medicine is not an antidote for the incredible harms caused by the modern food industry, but it is an effective distraction. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #healthcare-reform-in-the-us #heart-disease #manufactured-food #metabolic-syndrome

We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #heart-disease #manufactured-food #naturvore #whole-foods

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#chronic #conditions #crippling #depression #disorder

Men and women are learning animals. If you do not see what they have learned, you're blind. They are creatures ever changing, ever improving, ever expanding their vision and the capacity of their hearts. You are not fair to them when you speak of this as the most bloody century; you are not seeing the light that shines ever more radiantly on account of the darkness; you are not. seeing the evolution of the human soul!… …True, what you say about war. Yes, and the cries of the dying, I too have heard them; we have all heard them, through all the decades; and even now, the world is shocked by daily reports of armed conflict. But it is the outcry against these horrors which is the light I speak of; it's the attitudes which were never possible in the past. It is the intolerance of thinking men and women in power who for the first time in the history of the human race truly want to put an end to injustice in all forms. -- Marius to Akasha (The Vampire Chronicles) ↗

— Anne Rice

#the-vampire-chronicles #attitude