Ella Woodward Quotes

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

I had little breakdowns and depression that would last for three days. I also started suffering from panic attacks. I used to get them when I was really young, but they came back. I'd be out having a drink, and then I wouldn't be able to breathe, would freak out, and I'd feel like my heart was going to stop.

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

There's not a day that goes by that I'm not in pain. Multiple joints and things that I experience on a daily basis. It can be very frustrating sometimes and painful, but I'm very blessed.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.

The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.

I had every stress-related illness you can get.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.

When you are the parent of someone who is a chronic pain sufferer, you end up creating these binders for all of the hospital stays so you can keep track of every visit and any new thing that comes out.

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

I don't know if this is the same for everybody, but for me, sometimes I get depressed, where I wake up and I can feel a change. Something went wrong, and it's almost like you feel tingly in a way where you know something is off, and from that point forward, this anxiety kicks in where you just worry and worry... this cyclical, terrible nature.