Everyone tried to tell me that I got sick because of the stress I was under at that time in my life. I mean, within the year prior to getting sick, I had suffered 6 or 7 life-changing events, any one of which was significant enough to alter one's physical health...but I didn't buy it. I couldn't understand how emotional or even psychological stress could produce such physical results. Until my grandma's friend came to see me.
She put it simply: when you suffer from stress, your adrenal glands are stimulated along with other "fight or flight" responses triggered by the body. When the demands on these responses are continued for any significant length of time, your body keeps releasing these hormones being triggered and your entire hormonal balance becomes, well, unbalanced.
All these "fighters" being released into your body need something to fight and if the stress is emotional or psychological, there is no physical enemy present in your body and these little warriors create one. They turn on you and begin to attack your own immune system. And that's how long-term stress creates a very real physical problem: an autoimmune disorder.
Unfortunately, relieving the stress isn't enough to reverse an autoimmune disorder once contracted. However, a huge key to not relapsing (once the horrible, horrible poison treatment is over) is to debride the damaged neurological tissue and emotional scars left by the trauma. Then to eliminate stress from your life. Huh. Think I'll look into yoga.
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