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I've always heard irritable bowel syndrome is the most /lit/ disease. Who are some authors with IBS?

>> No.15515498

>>15515445
>most /lit/ disease
It's actually AIDS

>> No.15515513

>>15515445
what are your symptoms, anon? I've been having digestive problems for few years now, don't know if I should be concerned about it. As for your question, I think Darwin had some abdominal issues and Nietzsche had ulcers

>> No.15515690

>>15515445
Wrong, it's actually syphillis.

>> No.15515708

wrong, it's brain tumors

>> No.15515715

>>15515445
Wrong, it's COVID-19. Example: me

>> No.15515723

>>15515690
this

>> No.15515726

>>15515715
Fake disease

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15515730

>most /lit/ disease
depression and narcissistic personality disorder leading to severe graphomania

>> No.15515760

>>15515513
>Nietzsche had ulcers
I thought he just had indigestion?

>> No.15515791

>>15515760
he was AIDS patient 0

>> No.15515817

>>15515445
Tuberculosis is, or was, the most /lit/ disease.

>> No.15515850

>>15515817
I see it mentioned all the time in books, but why was it picked to be romanticized in the first place? Constantly coughing and hacking up blood doesn't sound that appealing to me.

>> No.15515851

>>15515445

Has any disease garnered more attention in the written word than TB?

>> No.15515868

>>15515851
yes...love

>> No.15515911

>>15515445
DEM TITTAYS

>> No.15515913

>>15515850
>but why was it picked to be romanticized in the first place?

It wasn't 'picked'. In fact it is no surprise that the 'Captain of all these men of death' should be TB seeing as it is so known, so ever present as a killer throughout mankinds most prolific creative periods of writing and indeed affecting so many writers (either directly, through loss of loved ones or seeing its effect on their community etc.). You don't realize it now because you likely live in a first world, developed country with a strong healthcare system where the rates of TB aren't so visible anymore but TB is still a prime killer with tens of thousands of deaths every year. Throughout the period of industrialization (1800s-1900s) in the West (and Russia) it was 'the' disease.

>Constantly coughing and hacking up blood doesn't sound that appealing to me.

The connection with blood and the wasting it caused also tied in rather nicely with folklore and spooks such as vampirism and the wasting of ones spirit as they were 'consumed'.

>> No.15516135

Tuberculosis
Syphilis
Epilepsy
Depression

These seem like the most /lit/ diseases since they're mentioned a lot in literature.

>> No.15516407

>>15516135
Agree.
And literature gives names to illness, like the Pickwick Syndrome.