People really can become so confused, can have their perceptions so distorted by mental illness that they literally experience themselves doing something other than what they actually did.
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They developed these mind-sets largely based on past experience with illness, and they use them as a starting point for weighing risks and benefits in their health care.
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Many have experience with chronic illness in their own families. (One was himself a patient in the clinic.) Few had clinical experience.
Taylor's fascination with psychology grew out of her own family's experience with mental illness: her father was diagnosed as manic depressive, and in high school, she herself was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, though she was not medicated.
People can use the experience of suffering from illness as a catalyst for transforming their lives in ways that go beyond lowering their LDL cholesterol or unclogging their arteries.
However, heart failure sufferers may experience a long and debilitating illness - and for the vast majority of patients, there is no cure.
"It is unthinkable to me that there would be a child, God forbid, that would experience a life-threatening illness and not have health insurance, " he said.
In 2006, a Portuguese television show popular with teen girls depicted characters experience symptoms of a strange life-threatening illness.
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For Barry, the experience underlined the importance of being open about an illness.
"From my own experience, I can tell you it's not a very mild illness, " Petersen cautioned.
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