Quotes About Health

The disease of emotional emaciation is epidemic. Its effects on health are often euphemistically labeled as stress, and like the emotions, stress is often treated like some unwanted waste that must be removed.

deeper psychological health is seen only when you can maintain a posture of self-love and self-respect in the times of emotional hurt that accompany life's inevitable contingencies of loss, loneliness, confusion, uncontrollable unfairness, and accidental mistake.

In order to stay healthy, our nervous systems and psyches need to face challenges and to succeed in meeting those challenges. When this need is not met, or when we are challenged and cannot triumph, we end up lacking vitality and are unable to fully engage in life. Those of us who have been defeated by war, abuse, accidents, and other traumatic events suffer far more severe consequences.

Often, traumatized people either feel nothing or they feel rage, and often the rage is expressed in inappropriate ways. By beginning to get a sense of what healthy aggression feels like, the extremes of numbness and rage can begin to give way to a healthier middle ground.

the chronically traumatized individuals generally show no change or even a decrease in heart rate. These sufferers tend to be plagued with dissociative symptoms, including frequent spacyness, unreality, depersonalization, and various somatic and health complaints. Somatic symptoms include gastrointestinal problems, migraines, some forms of asthma, persistent pain, chronic fatigue, and general disengagement from life.

The power of goodness—in this case, the organism's innate capacity to restore itself to health and balance—is encouraged by a bystander, an empathetic witness who helps to prevent trauma by embodying kindness and acceptance.

Children who are encouraged to attend to their instinctual responses are rewarded with a lifelong legacy of health and vigor.

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

so that the almost universal occurrence of this symptom in chronic catarrh may be expected.

A patient suffering from catarrh disease of the ear is commonly disordered in general health; especially are the digestive functions disturbed. These will require appropriate treatment by medicines.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

Don't go into the water if you're bleeding—at all, from anything, anywhere on your body.

If you've recently learned that you have a brain tumor, keep this in mind: You are a statistic of one.

A brain tumor can radically change your self-identity. Even if your tumor is removed and you are doing well, you may continue to see yourself as someone who is very different from other people.

Vestibular schwannomas constitute less than 5 percent of all brain tumors.

Second and third opinions can be valuable, but don't spin your wheels and lose time by getting ten opinions. Talk with two doctors and maybe three (as a tie-breaker); then do something. Going from institute to institute can take its toll both in terms of time and energy. Try to make a decision and go with it—and believe that you have made the best choice possible.

Try to find a medical center that has a finger on the pulse of the latest treatments both nationally and internationally.

The discovery of a brain tumor is a life-changing event that happens quickly, and for most people there is a surreal quality to the experience, even after a decision has been made about the best course of treatment.

My strong opinion is that you should continue on with life as normally as you can, no matter what kind of tumor you have.

Some patients choose not to pursue treatment out of a sense of denial about the tumor. They may think, "Maybe they're wrong. Why take these risks associated with treatment? I don't want to put my family through this and my insurance won't cover it.

Just when he thinks he's adjusting to anxiety as a constant condition, Jake feels several internal organs shrinking.

It is not only medicine that maintains well-being. Once we function competently, the world may pitch in.