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Sickness, Illness or condition?
BobJudy
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Not wanting to highjack the San Francisco post. Sickness, Illness or Condition. Are these three words interchangeable? For instance is being an addict a sickness, illness or condition? Sickness to me means contracting a viral or bacteria type disease. Illness to me means the state of ones health - examples - cancer, high blood pressure, heart problems etc.. Condition to me examples - Broken bones, obesity, blindness etc.. It seems to be commonplace to refer to an addict as sick, but to me this just doesn't fit. Illness may be a better term, as in mentally ill but that doesn't quite fit either. How about condition? Most obese people choose to be that way and an addict chooses to use drugs. This seems to be closest but not quite there either. It appears most of the time our society makes excuses for people making bad decisions by saying by saying that they are sick. If we make it convenient for people that make bad decisions then where is the incentive to make good decisions? Bob
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Or the post is way cool, makes my pants fit tighter, just the finest thing since cotton candy, I love it.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
We do not make the words overlap for convenience. The words have long standing definitions that overlap.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
A condition to me denotes a long term problem with your health. But again its a broad term and kind of an old fashion one IMO. Would you say; "I have a condition that keeps from climbing a ladder" or would you say" I have vertigo and cannot climb a ladder?" I would use the latter (no pun intended).
Illness is another broad term that fails to identify what is happening other than its not good. It too can either be physical or mental. He has an illness and that is why he cannot be left alone with kids is a nice way of saying he is a pedophile.
As far as drug addicts go that is a self inflicted problem, you are not born with it, you don't get from a toilet seat or not washing your hands after you wipe your *, it is a decision you make in life. I have no pity for drug addicts or a lot of people that seem to try to evoke pity from people, because when I see one of these people I always ask myself what decision did they make that landed them in the predicament.
bpost- Good definition and I am sorry he and you have to experience schizophrenia. But I was trying to make reference to others who do not have a real problem that we label as sick when they only use poor judgment. Bob
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