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Topic: Symptoms of illness

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Favorite possession(s):

Smallpox vaccine

People talk about their ..:

Childhood trauma, Positive outlook

Bad point(s):

Pessimistic

Personality:

Depressive, Suicidal, Nervous

Favorite body part(s):

Lungs

Favorite activity(s):

Sleepwalking sleepwalker, Sleeping, Taking drugs

Medical note(s):

Family history of schizophrenia, Approaching psychosis, Taking Prozac

Ultimate fantasy(s):

Having severe anorexia

Worst habit(s):

Smoking, Smoking Marijuana

Favorite quote(s):

"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it."
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Expert Talk

The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.

Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

Symptoms of disease are seen as indicators of an underlying cause of illness, perhaps due to improper body function and/or unfavorable dietary or lifestyle habits.
This is a common illness characterized by widespread muscular pain and fatigue in which standard medical tests fail to show abnormalities to account for the symptoms.
Because these symptoms are atypical of primary panic disorder, they were very helpful in alerting the clinician to suspect an underlying physical illness.

Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Symptoms can be addressed but it is the cause of illness that is sought which includes the underlying imbalances and patterns of disharmony in the body.

Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

This is where the individual who is experiencing symptoms of mental illness needs to become an advocate for themselves and take an active role in participating in the treatment planning process.
Many are sufficiently embarrassed by what they consider to be the stigma of mental illness and the shame of their symptoms that they are unwilling or unable to discuss their feelings with a professional.
It is this root cause of illness in addition to the acute symptoms that Tibetan physicians diagnose and treat.

Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

GPs were more sensitive to detecting psychiatric illness in individuals belonging to groups which commonly complain about psychological symptoms.
It is proposed that widespread problems of life are not symptoms of an epidemic of mental illness but signs that humanity is involved in a process of evolution.

David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

Non gastrointestinal illness symptoms such as skin, ear and eye infections were more common than gastrointestinal symptoms.
There was prompt improvement in symptoms and signs of the illness with the patient becoming afebrile in less than 24 hours from the start of treatment with antivirals and antibiotic.
His illness in a summary have been 2 stomach viruses 1 fever 1 flu like symptoms.

User Talk

Comments from our users:

From: Amanda 2004-11-05 21:57:36	What could cause symptoms of:upset stomach, nausea after eating, a hangover feeling, dizziness, faint, and an nonconsecutive ringing in the ears
From: clay 2004-11-09 11:47:31	I am a 44 yr old male. Have always been VERY active - running, weight lifting, and numerous other activities. But for the last 3-4 weeks I have been so physically tired - sleeping 10-12 hours a day, no energy, and some off and on lower back pain that appears to be in the kidney region, Have any ideas as to what may be happening?
From: Connie 2004-11-09 12:24:39	Is there a possible connection between swollen armpits and uncontrollable thirst? I have a 4-year old son who constantly complains of his armpits hurting, is obsessive about drinking water, and always had an elevated white blood? count whenever tests have been run. Does anything come to mind because the doctors have been unable to find anything wrong?
From: Shawn 2005-03-21 00:34:43	I want to know what could cause a slight pain in the left chest cavity? Feeling gets slightly worst during inhalation. Almost feels like an inernal itch.
From: connie 2005-03-21 00:35:49	my daughter is 12 years old, she was diagnoised a year ago with gastritis; was put on previsad 30 mg. 2 tabs twice a day; even though all the Dr's have told us it is a high dosage and she has been having more problems they all think she is o.k. she does fairly good for awhile , then she has a bad episode which will last for 4-5 days usually: she has not been eating hardly anything, has bad burning in stomach, now it's been in her left side, sometimes nausau, rarely vomits, has had her gall bladder checked, blood work, and upper GI checked o.k. nothing helps ease her burning pain, she takes loads of antacids, has recently had medications changed. This is a serious problem, she really suffers: please help!!!
From: Jeff 2005-03-21 00:46:20	This is my husband's name he is 47 years old, he is overweight, however, he has all his weight is in his stomach; all the Dr's say he needs to lose weight: he gets extremely bloaty, he retains tons of fluid, very gassy, a lot of bowl movements, he drinks tons of water, been checked for all the normal things tyroid, diabetis, etc...now he has developed a large ruptured belly button; we had been told by several Dr's the same "lose weight" he has had more problems with more bloatynes, we are to see a surgin in a few days: Any advise?
From: matt 2007-09-19 01:51:35	Modern medicine sees all mental illness deriving only from the brain - primarily from neurotransmitter imbalance and nothing else - the truth is that in many cases there is often an underlining physical cause (eg: infection, celiac disease, etc) and this is often never investigated, and so its no wonder today we are faced with the current tragedy that the Mentally ill die 25 years earlier, on average for more see http://www.gutandmentalillness.com
From: gallbladder deceased 2007-06-16 15:25:54

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