illness

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Homelessness can cause mental illness, and mental illness can cause addiction, and vice versa.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Higher intakes are sometimes needed during illness, frailty or recovery, unless someone has been advised to restrict protein because of kidney disease or another condition.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

The result can be heard in songs like the hard-driving “Is It Real?” in which Hollywell roars about mental illness and divine intervention, while Santos coats it all in steel honey.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

The just-quirky-girls-at-a-country-club mood does eventually turn darker, but the musical, like some other works of art about mental illness, often falls into the trap of romanticizing it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

And was the picture before or after her illness?

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish