Dr. Gabor Maté

I can't make that assessment because I don't know what study would even compare the two.

So I don't want to speak off the cuff.

But what I can tell you is that the emotions are really primary in most chronic conditions.

And if you deal with them, now in this society where there's all these toxins in the environment and junk in the food and all this, who knows?

But...

but what I know is that the emotions play a huge role and that that can have an impact on their illness.

And the other thing I've,

I don't know about you when you write books, but I write books as much for myself as for anybody else.

Yeah, exactly.

So I get to learn a lot when I'm writing.

So one of the things I learned when I was writing The Myth of Normal was even how we think about disease.

Like people say, I have eczema, or I have depression, or I have rheumatoid arthritis, or I have ADD.

Now, there's an assumption there, isn't there?

The assumption is, first of all, is that there's this thing called ADD.

There's this thing called eczema.

There's this thing called rheumatoid arthritis.

or there's this thing called depression, then there's an I. And the I has that thing.

But that thing has got its own separate, independent nature.

But to say that I have this disease makes the assumption that this disease has got a separate life and nature of its own.

It doesn't.