# Your Choice: Mental or Physical Illness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-mental-or-physical-illness/433141>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 11, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-mental-or-physical-illness/433141 "2008-01-11T16:30:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-choice-mental-or-physical-illness/433141/18 "2008-01-12T01:01:27Z")

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Physical. I have suffered mental illness-OCD, and it’s pure hell.

I also suffer from epilepsy. I can deal with that far better than the OCD. Seizures aren’t constant like obsessions are.

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