The worst part about having mental health issues is knowing that you’d never let your friends talk to themselves the way you talk to yourself. The brain is a cruel hunk of tissue sometimes. Insomnia, fatigue, racing thoughts, obsessive thoughts, negative self-talk I stay in that one uncomfortable place for so long that my already ailing back typically grows sore from having to keep me either hunched over, sitting in some kind of impossible twist or laying down in the most inelegant position humanly possible. I’ll post up in one place and remain there until a biological function usually forces me to move. When I’m stressed out I don’t tend to move. I would get dizzy if I stood too quickly and had to bury under the blankets to avoid light (a perfect place for a depressed person) and I exhausted almost all of my cold compresses just to keep the feeling of blood rushing in between my ears at bay. So with the recent swaths of severe light-sensitive headaches that can’t be linked to high blood pressure I had to assume that of course, it was the stress. I’m not usually a headache sufferer, only when my blood pressure is too high. I’ve been able to feel better by eating when I’m hungry, drinking water and the occasional ginger candy but I’m still working hard to handle my messed up gut biome. I remember feeling similarly when my mother passed away and being shocked because I simply hadn’t correlated the shock and trauma of losing my mother as a contributing factor to my then deteriorating health. The past few weeks have been marred with upset stomachs, wanting to eat everything in sight, wanting to eat nothing at all and just generally not feeling well. I won’t go into gruesome details here but when people say that you “trust your gut” part of that is because your stomach is a vital part of the system that stress can impact. Nausea, loss of appetite, increased appetite, food being unappealing With that being said, here is where I felt my stress the most. I wanted to explore what was feeling and I hope that in sharing and being vulnerable that you all take a moment to think about the stress in your life and how it’s affecting you. The body responds to stress poorly and I think we tend to forget that when we ache and feel rundown while being under constant pressure. At times, it’s easy to forget that stress is a biological response not just a psychic phantom. Needless to say, I have been stressed and likely more so than I have in years. I won’t go into detail because despite this being a personal blog, the events of the past few weeks are simply a little too personal and too close to home to want to share in their full detail.
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