What Our Body Wants us to Understand #shorts #mind #body

[omoriref]

People often underestimate just how connected our mental health is to our physical health. Neurology, psychology, all of it is connected.

[Uriella.A]

"Get it out of your system" makes so much sense now

[missnerd]

I had been denying a truth that I knew deep down for many months. It led to tiring insomnia. Over time it got better as I accepted the truth and gave space to the bitterness, sadness and hopelessness and a sense of defeat I was so afraid of feeling.

[missPieps]

I wouldn't call it "revenge". It's just that the feeling has to go somewhere. And in the end, it's in the body.

[januskhazar]

This is so important wisdom that should be taught in school, would reduce hospital bills and make children grow into responsible and decent people in general.

[zoetjez]

Last year I had so much joint pain in my knees, I wasn't able to walk for a week or so. Thought it was a physical thing, so went to a rheumatologist. Turned out it was undiagnosed PTSD, that I had for almost my whole life! After the diagnosis and being able to have introspection, because of moving out and going nocontact, the pain stopped.

[skystygian]

I was recently diagnosed with autism and scored super high for alexithymia, which is basically extreme difficulty in understanding/expressing my emotions. I still feel incredibly strong emotions, but they're torturously trapped inside. I also have developed more and more chronic health issues from a very young age. Eczema, type 1 diabetes, hashimoto's, hormonal imbalance, IBS, and now I need surgery for a cartilage tear from dislocating my knee. I'm learning how to understand myself and I'm feeling better but I have to undo over two decades of repressed trauma. I think I'm one of the most severe examples of this 😢

[cheesydorito]

When in a toxic relationship I noticed my body would never heal,
A cat scratch would last a year and I bruised like a peach.
My acne got worse and my mood was mostly down. Never felt like doing the things I love

When I was with people who truly cared for me I felt ecstatic 🤩 like a weight lifted off my chest and I could finally breath

I never had anxiety but with the ex my mind would always bring me down.

Crazy how my body rejected being with that person before I realized it’s time to leave

[miezeken]

This is a profound truth that our society needs to re-learn.

[kellyely]

Society has trained us to ignore our emotions and sensations that tell us something is wrong so that we are complacent rather than aware and informed, because a complacent society is easier to control and condition to consume the things we are told to consume. It's no surprise that people don't have any sort of free thought anymore to make healthy and rational decisions for themselves.

[dragonballzkai]

This couldn't be anymore true. I've been suffering from severe nausea all the time recently, I'm suspecting that its stemming from my poor mental health.

[YunoAsha]

Basically..if you are doing something that takes you out of alignment, it will start attacking your body. Like, "I shouldn't eat this cookie, I don't need it, I just WANT it." The real lesson is maybe you need to do work on your emotional state, find dopamine through relationships rather than food. But you eat another cookie, because you're sad. Badabing, badaboom, 100 cookies later... acid reflux, nausea, diabetes, etc. The Body Keeps the Score.

[orieking]

In high school, I had pneumonia on and off for two years. In a single semester I once missed 200 periods. I saw my doctor as well as others monthly, took blood tests just as often, and my results looked like I was fighting early stages of cancer. No one could figure out what was "wrong with me", so I just kept taking cough medicine, antibiotics and using an inhaler. After dozens of appts, my teenage self figured out IT WAS STRESS AND ALLERGIES. I couldn't do anything about the stress at the time (I had undiagnosed PTSD, OCD, BDD, & ADHD), so I just started taking allergy meds each day and haven't had pneumonia since. I've since been able to attend regular therapy, treat my disorders and now I get sick less than anyone I know!

[farahmughal]

A fantastic book I read was, 'The Great Pain Deception.' It cured the pain in my leg within 2 days. My body was keeping the score of past trauma. Once I acknowledged that pain, puff, it was gone!

[sarah]

“Many of our bodily ailments are ultimately mute forms of revenge for all the thoughts and feelings we have so carefully been refusing to entertain.” What a perfect way to describe anxiety!

[missannethrope]

Somatic work is extraordinarily helpful in easing this disregulation

[MissBlueEyeliner]

I have been chronically I’ll for almost 17 years (I’m 34) and have been disabled and mostly housebound for the past 8 of those. I truly believe it is from a lifetime of abuse and trauma. I have always felt very strongly but until I started dialectic behavioural therapy almost 5 years ago, I had no idea how to identify or process those emotions.
To all parents out there, whatever you do, _do not punish your child for having and expressing emotions!_
I was physically and emotionally hurt in response to showing emotion and here I am physically I’ll and estranged from my abusive parent.

[cocofrog]

This is one of the best short explanations of this phenomenon I’ve ever heard

[hozabd]

This is what makes us suddenly sad or in distress about something all of sudden that lingers throughout the day at back of our head
Then on looking back on what we have said or done we get surprised that its something we actually did or said or thought about.

[Movement]

Great summation of psychosomatic symptoms. The physical manifestation is real. The body knows the origin. At some point… the body can’t scream anymore telling us… pay attention to what happens immediately so the repression leads to depression and that leads to neglecting the body altogether. Completely predictable. Understandable.

Move. Your. Body.

Every little thing helps.