Yolanda Hadid Quotes

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

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

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

Becoming chronically ill has definitely given me a greater understanding of human nature, and I've learned to accept people's lack of long-term compassion for others while they live their busy lives.

Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face.

Sickle cell anemia made me a real angry kid. I was angry at God. I used to sit there and pray to God, please, take this pain away. It was nothing magical happening, there was nothing there. I felt like my prayers were not being answered. It made me real moody, I had an attitude problem growing up as a young child.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.

I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.