"When a patient tells a doctor that every symptom is the most horrible ever - and the physical exam and labs are normal - we often suspect something psychological is going on. The symptoms aren't fake. They're physical manifestations of anxiety, depression, and stress. So while I'm always on the lookout for a serious underlying disease."

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Source : Source: www.oprah.com

Danielle Ofri

#Stress Quotes #Fake Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.”
“If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.”
“The less people know, the more they yell.”
“Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.”
“Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.”
“If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.”
“No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.”
“The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance”

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