Nolan Sotillo Quotes

Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.

People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

If you live with someone that is depressed, the truth of it - it's not that dramatic, it's just a bit, kind of, 'Here we go, this is what we're doing today. This is sad. But we're gonna get through it.'

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.

To just meet people that have Crohn's or colitis and to hear their stories gives me a lot of hope and a lot of courage.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

When I went through my eating disorder, I never sought medical assistance. I created myths in my head about how I should get through things, so the idea that I could surround myself with truth and feel comfortable enough to speak mine allowed me to breathe.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time... All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn't want to get trapped.

MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims.