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Há 1 dia · Susan Sontag writes eloquently in ‘Illness as a metaphor’, describing how “any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious” and that illness can lead one to being shunned by relatives and friends, become an object of contamination, and how the individual can become an embodied violation of a taboo.
Há 5 dias · Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor argues that illnesses like cancer are harder to endure because of the metaphors of dread that accompany them. Exiles experience a similar phenomenon. The real dimensions of the experience can be made harder by metaphors of dispossession and loss.
Há 2 dias · Life with Chronic Illness Our daily lives often begin with 'batteries' partially depleted—a metaphor that resonates deeply within our community. I created this visual to help articulate the unique challenges of managing energy day-to-day and underscores our resilience and strategic life management.
Há 3 dias · Cognitions about illness have been identified as contributors to health-related behavior, psychological well-being, and overall health. Several different theories have been developed to explain how cognitions may exert their impact on health outcomes.
Há 5 dias · Scientists now know that stress is intimately linked with many chronic diseases: It can drive immune changes and inflammation in the body that can worsen symptoms of conditions like asthma, heart ...
Há 12 horas · IB: This is a small-scale private experience, with features common to many: illness, pain, grief, the end of a marriage, a child who needs protecting from the transience of life. The existential metaphor is in the whole of botany, its seasons, the secret roots, time, the idea of where we ‘plant’ ourselves to flourish, what distance means to us, what care means.
Há 1 dia · The prevalence of cormorbid physical (including chronic) illness, mental illness, and suicide in neurodivergent people is far higher than for neurotypical people. I’ve lived enough life and worked long enough in this environment to know it makes me sick, and the inevitability of that is not nice to say or hear, but it is true.
