Illness can't be defined as something treated with a pharmaceutical, but how do you define it? And if "mental illness" isn't illness, are all other illnesses illness if their psychosomatic components are taken into account? Aren't many physical illnesses bodily ailments that may have an origin in mental distress? How is the immune system affected by mind and the brain?


"The intensest light of reason and revelation combined can not shed such blazonings upon the deeper truths in man, as will sometimes proceed from his own profoundest gloom. Utter darkness is then the light, and cat-like he distinctly sees all objects through a medium which is mere blindness to common vision. Wherefore have Gloom and Grief been celebrated of old as the selectest chamberlains to knowledge? Wherefore it is, that not to know Gloom and Grief is not to know aught than an heroic man should learn?"

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just testing