Editorial October 25, 2021 ISSUE

What really defines us

Thomas Mitchinson

When we’ve been facing a physical or mental challenge, we may feel as if the ailment has become our identity. But we need to realize this is not who we are.

Increasingly, public thought is recognizing that any illness we may face does not define us. “I am not my disease,” Patrick McNamara, Ph.D, posted at one time. He continued, “. . . perhaps one of the best things we can do for one another [is] to remind one another that we are not reducible to a disease . . . .”

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