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What Ails Us

By Tracy Frisch, Gabor Mate — 2012

Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.

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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.

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Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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Emotional and Mental Health