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Cultivating self-awareness and self-reflection
Prioritizing and setting boundaries for self-care
Practicing mindfulness and presence
Illness comes with a distinct set of psychological and behavioral features. You feel fatigued, maybe a little depressed, less hungry than usual, more easily nauseated and perhaps more sensitive to pain and cold.
All these aspects of being sick are features of emotion that are an important part of how human beings work to recover from illness.
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Activating the immune system to fight germs costs your body a lot of energy.
Fatigue reduces your level of physical activity, leaving more energy available for the immune system.
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People possess a regulatory program that lies in wait, scanning for indicators that infectious disease is present. If it detects signs of infection:
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