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Quotation
“I had improved on the new regimen. But I had become trapped in my identity as a “sick person,” someone afraid of living. If my mission in life had been reduced to being well at all costs, then the illness had won.” (O’Rourke 37)
This quote seems important because allows us to understand the state of mind of the author, therefore, to understand her struggle and admire her resistance. Similar, I choose this quote because I believe that it connects both readings due to both emphasized in diseases. Meghan O’Rourke was always afraid of becoming her disease, and to stop being who she was before the diagnosis and the illness. On the same way, Charlotte Perkins Gilman who does not let her nervous disease to drive her crazy, …show more content…
Did you ever hear about this type of disease before?
Connections
These readings made me think about how we take for granted our health. I have always be grateful of not having a disease and be in constant pain, but I never realize my well being to the point of not having the necessity to be aware that I live in a body. We go through our lives without having any pain and eating what we please, but it is shocking now to think that some people have to even prepare their own food due to their illness.
Individuals with autoimmune disease have to go through their lives being aware that they cannot do certain activities or eat specific type of food because of the repercussions that might have in their bodies and well being. That's what I meant when I feel like I have take my health for granted, because I do not have to think about activities and food in relation to my health. However, we should all be mindful of what we put in our body and to keep in normal levels our blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose, despite of our health.
Furthermore, I liked better the story about autoimmune disease and the author mind set. Similar how much effort she put in not spending her life as a patient and in acknowledging her illness along with her lows and downs. Truly, this personal history made me feel grateful of having no sense that I live in a
Quotation
“I had improved on the new regimen. But I had become trapped in my identity as a “sick person,” someone afraid of living. If my mission in life had been reduced to being well at all costs, then the illness had won.” (O’Rourke 37)
This quote seems important because allows us to understand the state of mind of the author, therefore, to understand her struggle and admire her resistance. Similar, I choose this quote because I believe that it connects both readings due to both emphasized in diseases. Meghan O’Rourke was always afraid of becoming her disease, and to stop being who she was before the diagnosis and the illness. On the same way, Charlotte Perkins Gilman who does not let her nervous disease to drive her crazy, …show more content…
Did you ever hear about this type of disease before?
Connections
These readings made me think about how we take for granted our health. I have always be grateful of not having a disease and be in constant pain, but I never realize my well being to the point of not having the necessity to be aware that I live in a body. We go through our lives without having any pain and eating what we please, but it is shocking now to think that some people have to even prepare their own food due to their illness.
Individuals with autoimmune disease have to go through their lives being aware that they cannot do certain activities or eat specific type of food because of the repercussions that might have in their bodies and well being. That's what I meant when I feel like I have take my health for granted, because I do not have to think about activities and food in relation to my health. However, we should all be mindful of what we put in our body and to keep in normal levels our blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose, despite of our health.
Furthermore, I liked better the story about autoimmune disease and the author mind set. Similar how much effort she put in not spending her life as a patient and in acknowledging her illness along with her lows and downs. Truly, this personal history made me feel grateful of having no sense that I live in a