De Anna

“What is addiction, really?” the Swiss psychologist Alice Miller asks. “It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. —King Lear”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“Ever since my youth on the receiving end of grown men’s knuckles I’d always wondered how they would die;”
― Joseph Earl Thomas, God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

“Old measures of health not only have failed to improve significantly but have stayed the same: some have even worsened. Mainstream newspapers and magazines often report disease in an ethnocentric manner that shrouds its true cost among African Americans. For example, despite the heavy emphasis on genetic ailments among blacks, fewer than 0.5 percent of black deaths—that’s less than one death in two hundred—can be attributed to hereditary disorders such as sickle-cell anemia. A closer look at the troubling numbers reveals that blacks are dying not of exotic, incurable, poorly understood illnesses nor of genetic diseases that target only them, but rather from common ailments that are more often prevented and treated among whites than among blacks.”
― Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present