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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
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Define an individual?
Does "define an individual" mean "determine the essential quality of an individual"?
Background info:
Saks lives with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness published by Hyperion Books in 2007.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyn_Saks#cite_note-6 Saks is also a cancer survivor. She emphasizes that "illness of any kind need not define an individual, while remarking on the different ways that mental and physical illnesses are regarded".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyn_Saks#cite_note-saks25-7
Background info:
Saks lives with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness published by Hyperion Books in 2007.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyn_Saks#cite_note-6 Saks is also a cancer survivor. She emphasizes that "illness of any kind need not define an individual, while remarking on the different ways that mental and physical illnesses are regarded".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyn_Saks#cite_note-saks25-7
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I would say that it means that the individual is not the disease. Some people equate a debilitating mental disorder with the person who has it.
- I would say that it means that the individual is not the disease.
- Some people equate a debilitating mental disorder with the person who has it.
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I would say that it means that the individual is not the disease. Some people equate a debilitating mental disorder with the person who has it.
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SweetFreedom Who's "remarking on the different ways"? The author Saks?Yes.
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