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I think stuff like that is hogwash. JMO.
edited to add: how do they explain pediatric disease?
edited to add: how do they explain pediatric disease?
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I don't disagree with what the article is saying, that being, that stress can play a role in the course of autoimmune diseases. There are many here that can attest to the fact that stress causes them to flare and some that site stress as a cause for the onset on of the disease but I don't believe it is a factor for all.
My children's Crohn's mirror each other, in intestinal presentation, so that, and other factors, make it hard for me to believe that the cause their disease isn't primarily genetic.
They certainly have not had the childhood described in the article and they have very different personalities. One is very extroverted and other very introverted, so no neat fit their either.
It may go some way to explaining away her disease experience but fails to address many of the differences between the autoimmune diseases in which her life timeframe wouldn't fit with most sufferers of IBD.
Thanks for posting!
Dusty. xxx
My children's Crohn's mirror each other, in intestinal presentation, so that, and other factors, make it hard for me to believe that the cause their disease isn't primarily genetic.
They certainly have not had the childhood described in the article and they have very different personalities. One is very extroverted and other very introverted, so no neat fit their either.
It may go some way to explaining away her disease experience but fails to address many of the differences between the autoimmune diseases in which her life timeframe wouldn't fit with most sufferers of IBD.
Thanks for posting!
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Yes, I agree - stress has adverse effects on our health.
But I also think it's extremely difficult to accept that we can't control something like Scleroderma - or like IBD.
I think this kind of analysis is more of a defense than anything else. Seems to me people get frightened by the fact that in many cases, we don't know what causes the disease - even doctors and researchers don't really know. So they theorize it's something the patient did or didn't do, mostly because it gives them the feeling of control.
A classmate of mine died from Scleroderma. I knew she had it, but I didn't know much about until she got sick. Scary stuff. Seeing that disease can make me feel lucky I have what I have - so far.
BTW, I'm not criticizing the post, I'm just reacting to what the author of the article is saying.
But I also think it's extremely difficult to accept that we can't control something like Scleroderma - or like IBD.
I think this kind of analysis is more of a defense than anything else. Seems to me people get frightened by the fact that in many cases, we don't know what causes the disease - even doctors and researchers don't really know. So they theorize it's something the patient did or didn't do, mostly because it gives them the feeling of control.
A classmate of mine died from Scleroderma. I knew she had it, but I didn't know much about until she got sick. Scary stuff. Seeing that disease can make me feel lucky I have what I have - so far.
BTW, I'm not criticizing the post, I'm just reacting to what the author of the article is saying.
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I know you're not critcizing the post,
I want people discuss and debate. I think it's fun!
I do too! I just went back and realized not many people had posted, and thought maybe I came across too opinionated. I am opinionated, of course. :tongue:
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ChaoticKylee, I've edited your first post so the image doesn't show inline since it was breaking tables. I hope you don't mind People can click through to read it still.
As for the bottling of emotion and disease, I do believe that not properly processing emotion, especially traumatic events, can be a contributing factor to disease. I don't think it's ever the sole cause, but I feel it can be a variable that negatively affects physical health.
People can click through to read it still.As for the bottling of emotion and disease, I do believe that not properly processing emotion, especially traumatic events, can be a contributing factor to disease. I don't think it's ever the sole cause, but I feel it can be a variable that negatively affects physical health.
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I can relate to that article. I have always been the good little girl and to me anger is a feeling that I hardly know. They say we all have a main emotion, mine being "sadness". I don't get angry when I am upset, I get sad and I've pretty much always been that way. As if anger was not something my body/mind would really know what to do with. My first flare happened when I was a teenager, I had issues with my step sister, I was filled with anger but it was as if I could not canalized it out of my body. I've always thought it was the reason why I started being sick. My mother has crohn's too, so I do believe the genetic part truely plays a great part but I think that this emotional stress compound really can trigger the disease. After all, if someone can heal himself by the will and power of mind, I'm sure the opposite is possible. That being said, I don't know to which extent you can control or avoid these stresses and enter a state of mind that allows healing rather than destruction. Anyway, I'm pretty confident it's playing a good part as stress hormones and such get the digestive track permeable and hence incline to auto-immune diseases in general.
Isnt it funny how different people deal with emotions? I normally get angry. That is my first line of defense. My second is sick humor.
I agree with what others are saying. I do not believe that stress or extreme emotion cause the illness but I know it does contribute to my flares. I also agree with David regarding possible traumatic events as triggers.
Interesting article. Thank you for posting.
I agree with what others are saying. I do not believe that stress or extreme emotion cause the illness but I know it does contribute to my flares. I also agree with David regarding possible traumatic events as triggers.
Interesting article. Thank you for posting.
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