Pity Franz Kafka, who wrote to his love, in 1920 that “I’m mentally ill, the disease of the lungs is nothing but an overflowing of my mental disease.” (Sontag 1978) He actually had Tuberculosis. How awful it must be to have lived with the burden that you have been told that are severely sick because you think you are. (Sontag 1978) Pity Napoleon, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert A. Taft and Hubert Humphrey, whose cancer “was diagnosed as the reaction to political defeat and the curtailing of their ambitions. How awful it must be to be seen as a “cancer personality”; as a “loser”. These days, it is incomprehensible that TB and Cancer were once seen as a mental illness! But how can it be that the WHO classified, yet poorly understood physical disease, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, a disease that places a greater physical burden on patients than schizophrenia, cancer, stroke, multiple sclerosis and Type I diabetes, (Johnson 2015) is widely regarded as mental illness by medicine, when there i
Hi, just wondering if you can buy your book on amazon.
ReplyDeleteHi Amanda, I am afraid not yet, but soon. Meantime the paperback is available from Lulu, details on Stonebird at www.stonebird.co.uk/book/spirit.html
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Thanks for getting back to me fast. Just down loaded your e book and left a comment. Will buy book soon as its nice to have the 'real' thing. Great book by the way!
ReplyDeleteDear Amanda, bless you !! That was a wonderful , affirming comment that you left - it has lifted us up and made our day. Thank you so much.
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