Reading the book is an exercise in developing a painful kind of empathy.
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, she speaks with a philosopher friend about the tendency to disbelieve sick people who lack a clear diagnosis but nonetheless insist that they are ill. “Recognizing your suffering puts a burden on me,” he says to her—speaking rhetorically. “Just the act of recognizing you are ill makes a claim on me, doesn’t it? I have to respond. I have to empathize. And that takes a toll on me. And the more people I have to empathize with, the harder it is.”, began to feel unwell in her 20s and spent most of her 30s sick with a series of cascading autoimmune issues.
and Virginia Woolf’s essay “On Being Ill,” both works that O’Rourke discusses in her own text. Though you might reasonably findshelved in a science section, it is a deep engagement with all the ways that culture shapes a patient’s experience. O’Rourke interviews doctors and scientists, and includes a lot of information on topics like viral triggers for chronic illness and the poorly understood connection between gender and autoimmune disorders.
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