Is being very obese due to Dercums disease considered a handicap?

It was initially devastating. Your right (dominant) hand is useless( full description on youtube: and you're plagued with PD's attendant symptom of EDS (excessive daytime sleepiness). Your mind is as sharp as ever and you're ready to re-engage with the...

Thanks everyone for responding to my question. I saw the lady again and she swears that her grandson was cured by this Dr Leong guy. Here is the info from the net that i collected on Dr Leong Tole Center. What do you all think about this? AUTISM, AUTISTIC...

If this prolapse considered heart disease. I was diagnosed years ago with it . My doctor at the time told me this is not heart disease and now I googled it and it said this is heart disease. Another person said this is valve disease ? I never asked my...

I have lived at my apartment complex, which is subsidized, for 1.5 years and have always parked in the same place. The complex has been here for 8 years. There's a resident who has lived here for 8 years and has never heard of this before. We live in...

why? i never really understood this. alcoholism is, by official definition, "a physical and emotional addiction to alcohol". howis that a disease? its an addiction. does that mean all addictions are diseases? everything you put into your body...

They say heart disease is not just having a heart attack or a stroke. That is just the endpoint of heart disease (i.e. what happens if heart disease is not treated in time). I have been reading that heart disease can and does include atherosclerosis...

PLEASE HELP! Why is mononucleosis considered mostly a viral disease? How is the disease acquired, diagnosed and treated? What is aseptic meningitis? What can cause this disorder?

There are some that I would definitely classify as a disease, but many others really need to be questioned... Anorexia, Alcoholism, and other "diseases" really don't seem to meet the definition of disease - they're self inflicted, easily avoided...

...yet other forms of addiction aren't?I mean what is the difference between alcohol addiction and say heroin addiction? Why is one a disease and the other not? I read somewhere that it is classified as a disease because there are several distinct stages...