Of the first-timers, Becoming Strangers (Scribner) by Louise Dean, the story of two couples on a Caribbean holiday, each trying to deny the shadow of terminal illness, stands out as much for the simplicity of her language as for the unsentimental and subtle understanding of love and the structures that make up a life.
I have made it a mission to never let me illness stand in my way.
"Even though an eating disorder is not about the food, the mental illness stands as it is around the food," she says.
Child illness stands out among the studied immediate factors.
It is a familiar idea that the DSM's syndrome based conception of mental illnesses stands in the tradition of Kraepelin, who argued that "only the overall picture of a medical case from the beginning to the end of its development can provide justification for its being linked with other observations of the same kind" (1899, 3).
So for all of those who have lost someone dear to their hearts from a mental illness, I stand with you.
I write letters to it and remember it as a happy disaster, as the year when I learned how to spackle a wall, survive a life-threatening illness, and stand up for myself.
Given the symptoms, need for supplemental oxygen and the anxiety of living with a potentially life-shortening illness, it stands to reason that health-related quality of life (HRQL) may be impaired in patients living with LAM [ 5].
Although there are no studies evaluating the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation in patients recovering from non-neurologic critical illness, it stands to reason that such patients could benefit when they are found to be cognitively impaired.
Yesterday, Mr. Greenwald argued, in essence, that his client was too mentally ill to stand trial on charges of faking mental illness.
