Management of chronic illness affects the entire family, not only the chronically ill person.
This illness affects his ability to communicate and he is no longer able to give interviews.
While mental illness affects so many it is still something we too rarely touch on in theatre.
Elena Loewenthal spent more than a year volunteering at Italian health facilities to understand how illness affects human existence.
"This illness affects the daughter, who spreads to the husband, who spreads to the friend, the guy who calls me up," he added.
Post-natal illness affects between 70,000 and 100,000 women and their babies in the UK each year, and today it was reported that the NHS offers only patchy and often inadequate maternal mental healthcare.
Stop Pretending is an intimate look at how mental illness affects the whole family, how it can turn sisters into strangers, and how time, patience and love can weave them together again.
However the letter came with another form to fill in about how the illness affects his ability to work, and seems to suggest he'll have to go for a face-to-face assessment.
However, as this illness affects mainly children, the dose of radiation remains a major concern.
"The illness affects how someone thinks and can prevent them from being able to truly believe anything is wrong," it advises.
The illness affects between 3 and 8% of the human population (Goodwin and Jamison 2007), although these numbers may be higher because current diagnostic problems complicate differentiating between unipolar and bipolar depression (Bauer and Pfennig 2005).
