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Is it normal to like being sick?
Nearly 40 percent of those polled say being sick allows them time to focus on themselves and permission to slow down. While feeling sick is certainly nobody’s idea of a fun time, many people found there are some perks that can go along with it.
Why do I cry when I am sick?
When you’re sick, you might also feel grumpy or sad. That’s because the macrophages fighting the infection in your body send out cytokines. These cytokines can affect the parts of your brain that deal with emotions and reasoning.
Is being pale when sick normal?
A wide range of infections can cause pallor. One of the most serious is sepsis, a type of infection that can result from bacteria entering the bloodstream. If the bacteria damage red blood cells, it can cause a person to look pale.
Why do you lose color when sick?
Respiratory infections include conditions like influenza (the flu), throat infection, and the common cold. When you have a respiratory illness, the blood vessels in your skin constrict so your body can redirect blood flow to treat the infection. This makes you look pale.
Do you have someone who wants to be sick all the time?
This information is for all the regular, normal and fairly healthy people of the world who have someone in their life that just seems to want to be sick ALL of the time. You know: hypochondriacs.
How hard is it to get sick enough to go to hospital?
Well, there are about 1,001 ways to get sick enough for hospital admission. Many of them include a genuine risk of permanent damage and/or death, though. As a person who has had to spend a lot of time in hospitals for various appointments and tests, though, I am curious as to why you’d want to do yourself harm like that.
Are the chronically and invisibly ill oblivious or ignorant?
The chronically and invisibly ill ARE NOT oblivious nor ignorant. In fact, we are so used to people thinking the way you do of us that we know immediately who is judging us and who isn’t. The world makes it very uncool to be sick and we know that.
Are people who are invisibly ill more likely to be verbally abused?
Sadly, many people that are chronically and invisibly ill are very accustomed to being verbally abused by people who don’t ( or won’t try to ) understand. It’s not new for me to hear an opinion like Tom’s was.