you need to get it out of your mind that psychosomatic illness is just “making up symptoms” when it’s actually much more like your body is being actively poisoned by chemicals released from your brain
if you’re so stressed that you’re puking your guts up every morning, are unable to eat or keep anything down, you can’t look at light without feeling infinitely worse and feel exhausted and in pain all the time (or whatever your particular stress induced symptom set is) you’re not just feeling like that because you’ve willed it into being. your body is begging for relief from the constant barrage of stress hormones and it requires the fundamental source of stress to go away, not just distracting yourself from the symptoms
just because the root is psychological doesn’t mean the result isn’t an entirely physical process.
This and also "your body is desperately trying to alert you to the fact that stress is killing you"
This is such a good way to put it. I spent the first 4 months of this year throwing up as soon as i woke up every morning, I had chest pains regularly and I would get dehydrated at an ungodly speed no matter how much water I drank, and it really did just feel like i was dying
Yeah. Obvsl there's this really bizarre insistence in Euro culture that "The Mind" isn't physical, but like: your brain is meat. It controls you body(also meat) through physically spasming electro-conductive meat(nerves), and meat-juices(hormones). Your thoughts aren't ephemeral; they're physical events in your brain. And when your brain is in a bad place because of Stress --which is "JUST" Stress it's not like there's "Physical Stress" and "Social Stress" and "Psychological Stress" all of it produces the same chemical- and nervous- reactions-- you feel it physically the same way you do when you pull a muscle or twist a joint. Having something really shitty happen to you doesn't feel like getting punched in the gut because you know what metaphors are; it feels like that because your body responds to both THE SAME WAY.
