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To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

Richard Hofstadter
Self, Sick, Hazards
Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.398, Vintage
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.