Healing Your Body and Your Mind
Why it is so important to give well-rounded healthcare
I talk a lot about health — both mental and physical. They are equally important and both physical and mental health conditions can be debilitating.
There is a strong correlation between Fibromyalgia and PSTD (both of which I have). There is also a strong correlation between PMDD and PTSD. There is ample research that shows Endometriosis can be mentally devastating as well as physically; in a BBC survey, half said that they had suicidal thoughts.
It is important that we address every health cause in a person. This means not writing off Endometriosis symptoms as anxiety; we need to look beyond the mental health symptoms and find the physiological cause of stress on the body-mind. Many say that treating their physical condition made it easier to treat their mental health.
My therapist and I regularly talk about how you cannot heal trauma while still experiencing the trauma. If you are still enduring regular and extreme pain from untreated or mistreated Endometriosis, you are regularly enduring trauma. It is difficult to heal the mind when the body is in shambles.
If you live with chronic pain, please be extra gentle with yourself. Chronic pain could change the brian; we deserve better, well-rounded…
