Stop telling yourself you have an illness, you don’t, you have a label

Simplifying the complex

In its most basic form, every living thing on this planet is made up of cells. From plants to animals, from trees to humans, wherever there is life there are cells. If we look under a microscope, you and I are little more than a mass of cells tightly wrapped in a layer of skin.

Just as a house is made of thousands of bricks, trillions of these tiny cells make up your eyes, lungs, brain, fingers, nose and toes. Cells also make up just about every other bit of yourself you can think of. Essentially, cells are the building blocks of all this life and the smallest living unit that can replicate independently.

What’s the relevance of knowing that you and I are fundamentally made up of trillions of microscopic cells?

Think about it … if we are to accurately manage what ails us, our first goal must be to break down the complex into something more manageable. Looking at a problem in its most basic form (the cell) allows us to quickly develop a fresh perspective on what an illness really means to us. To some, what you are about to read may seem like an oversimplification, but this is just our base which we will then build on.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein.