• TheLemming@feddit.de
    141·
    2 years ago

    What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

    Yeah maybe, but it also makes you stranger.

    • arandomthought
      14·
      2 years ago

      Also not necessarily true. You might loose a limb and survive, but it could mentally wreck you and you’re definitely weaker with one vs. two arms.

      • aname@lemmy.one
        10·
        2 years ago

        Not to mention all the war veterans with PTSD for the rest of their life

    • Freeman@feddit.de
      7·
      2 years ago

      Especially virusses and bacteria: Your immune system gets a bit stronger but organs probably have small irreversable damages because there is scartissue where the infection was the worst.

      • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
        8·
        2 years ago

        I can only imagine how much people with severe, long-term diseases hate that phrase.

        I feel like it’s just missing a very big caveat:
        What doesn’t kill you, and lets you reemerge in a healthy state once it passes, makes you stronger.

        That I can more or less agree with. Whatever happened that prompted people to say this will probably still leave a mark though.