Playing the Sick Role

Everybody falls sick once a while.

Some people fall sick more frequently than others.

When people fall sick, they need to play the sick role.

Sick role requires the person who has fallen sick to adhere to a certain lifestyle, new habits like eating medications, and other stuff which the professionals dictate. Which your main care-giver dictates.

Usually when you are in the sick role, you do not really make your own judgments until when you are better.

For healthcare professionals like nurses, it's harder to be in the sick role. Cos we've played the "professional role" almost everyday as out job scope. Thus, nurses are also the worst patients.

Now I am in the sick role.