Chronic Quotes

“If we only live by the fickle code words of the moment and don’t grasp that today’s truth is not the same as tomorrow’s truth, we remain victims of chronic self-deception. ("Was it all worthwhile?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis”
― Alexander Lowen, Fear Of Life

“Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“The absolute worst thing that you can say to a person that suffers with chronic fatigue: It is all in your head.”
― Steven Magee

“Mental illness and chronic fatigue are comparable to a dead soul inhabiting a surviving body.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Chronic Fatigue crushes the soul.”
― Steven Magee

“I have great respect for the loyal partners of people that are afflicted by chronic fatigue.”
― Steven Magee

“Sleep apnea is known to cause mental illness and chronic fatigue.”
― Steven Magee

“I have great expertise in procrastination.”
― Steven Magee

“A journey into self diagnosis and treatment was required when the medical profession left me suffering for years with mental illness and chronic fatigue.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Friendships are a fascinating aspect of the human experience.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Steven Magee’s body behaves as if it is permanently above 10,000 feet and causes chronic daily altitude sickness, even though he lives in Tucson, Arizona, USA.”
― Steven Magee

“Magee’s Disease is a chronic lifelong condition that may lead to permanent disability. It presents as permanent altitude sickness, regardless of the altitude that the person is at. There is no known cure, only treatment options. Avoidance of very high altitudes by the sea level adapted human may prevent the development of the condition in healthy people.”
― Steven Magee

“I attribute my ability to diagnose and treat my chronic health conditions to the Red Cross and St. John’s Ambulance training that I did in my youth.”
― Steven Magee

“Through chronic and disabling sickness, I turned into a world leading expert in many specialties.”
― Steven Magee

“Whenever I interact with a university professor, I am aware that I am in the presence of a person that has probably had chronic exposure to radio frequency radiation.”
― Steven Magee

“My disabling sickness became a curiosity to me.”
― Steven Magee

“The sleep doctor was evaluating me for a BiPAP machine, as the CPAP machine was triggering altitude sickness, chronic fatigue, sleepiness and gastrointestinal problems.”
― Steven Magee

“I was riddled with memory issues that became so severe at the age of 45 that I had to apply for disability benefits. At the age of 50, my mental functioning was in decline with severe short term memory issues, concentration problems and chronic fatigue. My kidneys were testing bad on blood tests. The USA has refused all applications for occupational disease and disability benefits.”
― Steven Magee

“Working at Mauna Kea Observatories brought on chronic fatigue, irritability, and a variety of mental health problems that have plagued me ever since.”
― Steven Magee

“It was 2008, I was age thirty eight and fighting chronic fatigue and mental functioning issues daily. Coffee was my best friend! But the coffee did not fix me, it just helped perk me up to get me to work daily. I was living the “American Dream”. I had my green card work visa, I was a resident of the USA and I could work for any employer I wanted to! But I felt lousy every day. Getting out of bed was hard after a poor night of sleep.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“One of the important things to be aware of with supplements is that too much of certain supplements can induce symptoms of mental illness and chronic fatigue. Supplements are useful in the right dose, but too little can be ineffective and too much can make you sicker.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Daily chronic fatigue can be an indication that something is wrong in your environment that needs to be identified and removed.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“I was fortunate when I became disabled by mental illness and chronic fatigue that it had become fashionable!”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Hypoglycemia makes you fatigued and sleepy after a large intake of calories.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Four cups of coffee a day keeps depression at bay.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“The rise of coffee drinking in the USA has coincided with the rise of chronic fatigue.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“A person with chronic fatigue should go swimming daily, preferably in a cool outdoor pool.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Altitude hypersensitivity had me in a permanent state of chronic mountain sickness at 2,400 feet in Tucson until I moved to near sea level.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“After a nasty flu-like sickness went through my family in 2015, I developed chronic daily headaches. I had them for years until my brain was scanned with a CT X-Ray scanner. A few weeks later they disappeared and I have never seen them since!”
― Steven Magee