One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives. Votes: 1
It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment. Votes: 1
Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. Votes: 1
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems. Votes: 1
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. Votes: 0
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. Votes: 0
It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it. Votes: 0
Pain was simply an inevitability of living, and I had to learn how to trust him with his own, as I trusted him with mine. Votes: 0
When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth. Votes: 0
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions... Votes: 0
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. Votes: 2 David Bowie
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Votes: 5 Haruki Murakami
With all due disrespect... Votes: 3 Sir Topless Bottomley