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Internal Symptoms of Emotion

JT

I am diagnosed with ASC & ADD. Previous to receiving this diagnosis I have been chronically ill with Crohn's Disease since 2012. I developed it during a period of immense work stress, pulling long hours and taking on the highest quality of work I could produce in my late 20s. I ended up quitting through ill health.

Recently, I discussed some very difficult family things with my brother who lives in Australia about the relationship we have, or don't have as the case may be, with our Dad.

It was intense and brought up a lot of emotion in me. I went to sleep last night feeling ok, but this morning have been the most ill I've been in some time. Sorry to note, but it has triggered internal stomach pain, I suspect inflammation, and diarrhea all day. I'm a beaten man right now.

But my question is, do you notice physical internal responses to emotion & stress? I mean, notably serious ones like auto-immune responses?

Just wondering if I'm ever going to see the end of this terribly debilitating disease in my life time, as it's a suffering I wouldn't wish upon anyone

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  • Can't say for sure, but recent Autism diagnosed at 31, but got Shingles last year at 30 and this year was rushed to hospital with some rare digestive inflammatory disease thing (mesenteric panniculitis) both of which can be triggered by stress and are much more common in the 50+ year community, so I do wonder whether it is stress of just coping with things that have brought on these immune issues (the body and mind trying to metaphorically juggle too many things at the same time) -- I get advised to 'stress less' but I always feel stressed so I really don't know how to go about it!

  • in reply to Starfox

    Sorry to hear you have to deal with that. Prior to this flare up I'd been feeling really quite good, I put that down to my daily meditation practice. I definitely recommend adding that to your toolkit

  • in reply to JT

    Thank you! My partner has started an enforced 30 minutes of weighted blanket relaxing time a day (which is quite good at the moment, as I am bad at deciding to do good things for myself hah!) so him saying "this next 30 minutes you don't have to do anything but just lay here and listen to music etc" seems to be helping a bit :) In between flareups I feel ok, so I guess it is a 'Is what it is' (don't like the phrase but is appropriate here) situation

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  • in reply to JT

    Thank you! My partner has started an enforced 30 minutes of weighted blanket relaxing time a day (which is quite good at the moment, as I am bad at deciding to do good things for myself hah!) so him saying "this next 30 minutes you don't have to do anything but just lay here and listen to music etc" seems to be helping a bit :) In between flareups I feel ok, so I guess it is a 'Is what it is' (don't like the phrase but is appropriate here) situation

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