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Mainstream medicine is firmly committed to a better life through chemistry, and the fact that we can actually change our own physiology and inner equilibrium by means other than drugs is rarely considered.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Babesia microti, a malaria-like illness that could explain the fevers, chills, and day and night sweats and that account for some of their resistant symptoms. Once treated, some patients using wheelchairs could stand and walk. Next was the discovery of cat scratch disease symptoms, or Bartonella, which could explain their resistant neurological sym
... See moreRichard Horowitz • Why Can't I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease

I have found that one of the gifts of medicine is that it allows those who practice it to participate in the purest and most vulnerable moments of human life.
Christine Montross • Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Mr Brooke himself was not in a position to be quickly conscious of anything except a general slipping away of ideas within himself: he had even a little singing in the ears, and he was the only person who had not yet taken distinct account of the echo or discerned the image of himself. Few things hold the perceptions more thoroughly captive than an
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
Healing the Light Body School
Alberto Villoldo • Power Up Your Brain
Any major illness transforms a patient’s—really, an entire family’s—life. But brain diseases have the additional strangeness of the esoteric.