In this episode I'm considering the question: How do people deal with having chronic illness?Today I'm talking about my mother's radical stoicism and how that influenced my orientation towards my own sickness.

Were you conditioned not to talk about sickness?

Did the maxim "if you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing," apply to you and extend to your body and your experience of illness?

How has it been to unlearn the habits of deflecting the question "how are you?"?