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Ornette Coleman

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

Ornette Coleman

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The nurse’s deep concern for the well-being of mental patients, especially about their basic needs like food, caused her so much stress that it affected her own mental health. This shows how caring too much for others’ problems can sometimes lead to personal suffering.

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