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Racism is not something that is designated as an illness that can be treated by mental health professionals.
— Illness
Racism is not something that is designated as an illness that can be treated by mental health professionals.
The best of remedies is a beefsteakFor I have found it answer—so may you.
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).
The best therapy for the imaginary invalid is very simple, but rarely applied. The subject should be taken to a place where people must bear atrocious sufferings and the loss of all human dignity.
He was despised and was avoided by men,
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
A maladyPreys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.
Take you up when you feeling down He can cause the dead to rise.
This sickness doth infectThe very life-blood of our enterprise.
He had a fever when he was in Spain,Did lose his lustre.
What, is Brutus sick,To dare the vile contagion of the night?
My long sicknessAnd nothing brings me all things.
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth)—so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self—mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution.
I've known my lady (for she loves a tune)A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.
But when ill indeed,E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.
Prevention is better than cure.
I've that within for which there are no plasters.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draäins,For she bedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paäins.
