[@Buddha]
With the specifics of what you meant by 'not going into personal stories' in mind now, I'll try to give a more thorough response later on. I actually need to head out the door for a family meeting within the next half an hour, so most of my time's gonna be spent preparing for that. I won't be back until late tonight (it's 10:12 AM currently).

One quick thought before I head off:

Having an illness doesn't inherently make someone an expert on an illness, but it can make them have a better understanding of the weight it can carry on a person's life. After all, one of the reasons that many people in this world fail to understand something is due to lacking the ability to empathize with it. This is particularly common in social classes, where people who're rich are incapable of understanding the struggles of the misfortunate because they've lived their entire life with a silver spoon in their mouth. They take things for granted that others would consider a blessing, and they consider minor inconveniences to be serious problems. I'm not in disagreement with you though, because I know most of my insight comes from a natural ability to understand human psychology well, not because of whatever I suffer from.