Hi there! So I've had a weird variety of physical health issues for the past several years, and seeing a wide variety of doctors / therapists etc. has not done a lot for me. I grew up in a sort of physically violent / verbally abrasive household (I'm going to step back from using the term "abusive," but probably not that far off) and I've always wondered if there's some connection between that and my current physical health issues.
The tricky thing is... I'm just sort of positive / upbeat / feel good basically all the time, and it's hard for me to really identify any conscious emotions or bodily tension or anything that seems related. It's totally possible it's just all suppressed like 4 layers down, because I'm pretty sure I also do this with anger (eg since I grew up with an insanely angry person in the house, I just couldn't really express anger/upset at all, or they would freak out at me).
So I'm trying to figure out what other kinds of approaches to try, because most of the normal therapists I've seen have come up at a loss.
Any thoughts appreciated!
Thanks.
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The brain is a physical organism after all, and delineation between physical and "psychiatric" disease is an artificial demarcation of convenience. Something like obesity can well be called a psychiatric illness, and let's not even get into the weeds of psychosomatic conditions like fibromyalgia (nonexistent in India, if that makes anyone update).
The issue is, of course, teasing out the associations, and it's possible that in certain cases where we know what's faulty upstairs, we have no way of fixing it. At least before the Singularity I suppose..
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