There were family things, illness," she said.
There are so many factors that can impact a client's ability to stay on top of things: illness, change in circumstances, relationship troubles, relocation to a new home, poor time management.
He says that he sometimes welcomes it when he breaks a string, because that is precisely the kind of thing (like illness or an injury to a teammate) that you cannot prepare for — that you haven't chunked and, like some robot, stored neatly in long-term memory.
All these little things can make the trauma of the big thing (the illness) more bearable.
Instead of bollocking you, I'll tell you lots of fascinating and heart-breaking and beautiful things about mental illness; things that will make you re-evaluate your language because your care and because you're interested, not because you've been shamed into feeling guilty.
Strangers, noise and unfamiliar situations terrify him, but he is curiously detached about things like illness and death.
A number of recent studies show that nutrition and aerobic exercise are no longer sufficient -- apart from the wisdom of sidestepping things like illness and moving freight trains -- to protect the aging body.
Terrible things — accidents, illness — happen all the time, and she has come to accept her new life.
Head points out that "FMLA [leave] doesn't require psychosis or any particular diagnosis," and that it simply "has to be a 'serious health condition,'" which can be among other things—any illness requiring an overnight hospital stay.
There is such a thing as terminal illness, sickness from which there is no recovery.
