Ill Feelings Quotes

“Every day that starts ‘let’s just try to have a better day than yesterday’ ends in a worse one. Who gave me this shitty advice - or did I make it up? Why am I setting myself such a high standard?”
― Alice Hattrick, Ill Feelings

“Diagnosis is, in the words of Eli Clare, a queer disabled academic and writer, ‘a tool and a weapon shaped by particular belief systems, useful and dangerous by turns’. You have to question if this naming works in your favour, and how will it be used against you.”
― Alice Hattrick, Ill Feelings

“There was nothing really wrong with us: we wanted to be ill. I knew more about the stigma around my diagnosis than the history of it. I knew it was not what you wanted to be diagnosed with. The ‘difficulty’ of diagnosing it transfers onto the person being diagnosed – they too are labelled difficult. What does a sick woman look like anyway?”
― Alice Hattrick, Ill Feelings