SICKNESS VS. ILLNESS

Sickness vs. Illness

So often we confuse these two words: sickness and illness.  We use them interchangeably as though they each meant the same thing.  They don’t!

Sickness is when a part of the body is broken or malfunctioning.  Any medical diagnosis, or psychiatric malady is a sickness.

Illness, on the other hand, refers to our emotional, psychological, and/or spiritual reactions to our sickness.

NOTE:  Most patients report that the pain from their illness is far more severe, long lasting, and personally traumatizing than is the pain from their sickness!

I found that about 15% of the patients I worked with during my 15 years as Director of Behavioral Sciences in a large teaching hospital, were truly healing … they were sick, but incredibly they were not ill.  These patients felt the pain of their sickness, but little or no discomfort from an illness.  On the other hand, the other 85% of patients were both sick and, to a greater or lesser degree, they were also ill … they suffered pain from both their sickness and from their illness!

Medical care seeks to CURE sickness; to bring the body back to its original functioning. 

What I have learned, and what the Spiritual Strengths Healing Plan does, is to teach you how to HEAL your illness.

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