When  I am ill I believe more in diet than in drugs. I often get very dizzy and even suffer from anemia, but I always refuse to take any medical drugs. I try to focus more on changing my diet and food plans as “I” believe what I eat is the major factor that determines my health. After reading the lectures and readings provided, I have realized that people often link ‘illness’ mostly with physical illness, and yes, that’s what came into my brain at first when I saw the phrase about illness. As Michel Foucault’s theory on medicine describes its form as a ‘bio power’ rather than merely a healing treatment, it is certainly true that we should be more careful when adopting a term and to be able to relate them in other ways. According to Peter Conrad and Kristin K. Barker in “The Social Construction of Illness: Key Insights and Policy Implications”, some illnesses are implanted with cultural status, and are socially constructed dependent on ‘us’, on ‘how’ we understand and accept them. Illness can be physical, emotional, social and more, but the key point is that we must find our way out to truly comprehend that it is in the realm of social construction. It was so interesting to find out that illness can be highly perspectival; one may believe ‘cold’ to be illness while the other does not. In the end, a single word or a concept can be regarded distinctively based on individual’s cultural experiences.