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Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?


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This page presents the quote "Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?". Author of this quote is Ruby Wax. This quote is about crazy, mental-health-stigma, discrimination, lack-of-compassion, prejudice, mental-illness, stigma, depression,.