Brush suffered herself during these years and many years before from emphysema and other maladies, and her travel and activities were often restricted.
As in other maladies characterized by massive wounds or tissue destruction, hyperbaric oxygen treatment can be a valuable adjunctive therapy but is not widely available.
Some schools of psychotherapy such as cognitive therapy encourage people to alter their own thoughts as a way of treating different psychological maladies (see cognitive distortions).
Lower differences between dark and light totals indicate more severe repurcussions for the character, such as death, disfigurement, life-long pain, or other obvious physical maladies.
