HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Good article

Support Forums
>
Lyme Disease
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 5/7/2016 7:13 PM (GMT 0)
I mentioned this recently...I think the spiritual piece is a biggie.

"For many patients with long-term Lyme symptoms, patients should ask themselves, “what is the spiritual aspect to this illness” Franscescott said. He believes that those who suffer Lyme and other diseases should pay attention to the “whole body” including the emotional side, adding, “you can give them information but they have to find their way with support.”

/sites.newpaltz.edu/ticktalk/ottaway-2014-lyme-disease-investigation/story-by-annemarie-courtens-2/
Posted 5/8/2016 3:38 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks for sharing! Bumping for more views.
Posted 5/8/2016 3:46 AM (GMT 0)
Great article. I personally do not think my spiritualism has been the healing part of my journey. I was spiritual before lyme.

I do agree with how lyme has humbled me. And I do think we all find our own path.

It is sad that some have an easy time of healing and some have it so dang hard. That I do not understand.

So many factors come in our lives besides lyme. Lyme is an individual thing. Each of us with our own symptoms. And because of this, each of us will have to more than likely find our own treatments.
Posted 5/8/2016 4:01 AM (GMT 0)
I've mentioned Gabor Mate' a few times. He's had a major impact on my thoughts about health and wellness. I'm particularly interested in his "stress-disease" connection.

"People who have a chronic illness of any kind — cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic neurological and skin disorders — often fit certain personality profiles. For example, they tend to pay a lot more attention to the needs of others than to their own. They get caught up in their job or their role as a caregiver rather than looking after themselves. They also tend to suppress the so-called negative emotions, such as sadness and anger. They try not to acknowledge these emotions even to themselves. And, finally, they tend to think they are responsible for how other people feel and to be terrified of disappointing others who are important to them."

thesunmagazine.org/issues/440/what_ails_us

This is the spiritual work I mentioned...recognizing this pattern in my own life and working to change such behaviors is necessary for my healing. (IMO)
Posted 5/8/2016 4:24 AM (GMT 0)
More: (this fits with Lyme and co)

"Anger that is repressed can also turn inward. People who repress their anger can actually suppress their immune system, making it turn against itself. When that happens, you’re going to get autoimmune disease. Anger and the immune system have the same purpose: to protect boundaries. The immune system does its job of attacking foreign particles, and anger does its job of keeping out human invasions.
When you suppress your response to a boundary invasion, you’re going to become stressed. If I started rifling through your purse, for instance, and you didn’t object but instead repressed your anger, you’d feel very stressed, because you’d be worried I’d take your money. It takes tremendous energy to suppress emotions. The act itself is stress producing. Self-suppression is not innate. It’s a learned coping style. When you’re a child and your parents can’t handle your feelings, you learn to suppress them to maintain your relationship with your parents. But what was a coping response in the child becomes a source of illness in the adult."
Posted 5/8/2016 5:29 AM (GMT 0)

Kathie said...
More: (this fits with Lyme and co)

"Anger that is repressed can also turn inward. People who repress their anger can actually suppress their immune system, making it turn against itself. When that happens, you’re going to get autoimmune disease. Anger and the immune system have the same purpose: to protect boundaries. The immune system does its job of attacking foreign particles, and anger does its job of keeping out human invasions.
When you suppress your response to a boundary invasion, you’re going to become stressed. If I started rifling through your purse, for instance, and you didn’t object but instead repressed your anger, you’d feel very stressed, because you’d be worried I’d take your money. It takes tremendous energy to suppress emotions. The act itself is stress producing. Self-suppression is not innate. It’s a learned coping style. When you’re a child and your parents can’t handle your feelings, you learn to suppress them to maintain your relationship with your parents. But what was a coping response in the child becomes a source of illness in the adult."

Believe me, I do not see an advantage with letting it out, either. I have spent a life time repressing. I can almost remember the date when my ability to separate myself from what was hurting me emotionally stopped. I honestly believed it was a survival instinct that I had back then. I don't know if it's my age or the illness that changed all that, but now that I find myself unable to keep from responding immediately to 'crap'.

I don't like it, and I'm sure those that experience it don't like it much. The only one I still manage to avoid confronting (which is sort of how these things play out) is my daughter. She's pretty fragile too, and after years of on again/off again estrangement, I don't want to ruin the good place we have been at this past year.

I find people to be even more irritating as this Lyme thing takes hold in my brain and I seem to have no problem hiding it. And while I found that I am now more tolerant of myself these days, I absolutely don't like me this way. But then I'm speaking of more irritations than boundary invasions.
Posted 5/8/2016 12:29 PM (GMT 0)
What I don't like about this article:

20% become chronic (if not caught early)? Has to be way way more. I'm pretty confident 80% of people don't catch it early enough.

Why lyme becomes chronic IS known and understood. Biofilms, cysts, only staying in the blood for a short time and moving and hiding in bones and tissue where abx can't go.

What I love about this article:

"Bruntil discovered that many of her symptoms, which she thought were caused by her Lyme disease, were also in part due to the antibiotics. She had to “repair all of the damage done by them [antibiotics],” she said. The long-term antibiotics had resulted in painful side effects, particularly on her gut flora. Since transitioning away from antibiotics and focusing on herbal remedies and diet, Bruntil and her family have finally recovered."

This is exactly my experience. Abx ended up doing more harm than good.
Posted 5/8/2016 5:17 PM (GMT 0)
I agree completely, dacarte3! My MIL was treated with IV Ceftriaxone early on for a month way back in 2004...now she's dealing with severe RA....they say it has nothing to do with Lyme because she had the appropriate treatment. Yeah...I buy that.
I think 80% is definitely a more accurate number.

Not only do antibiotics cause painful side effects, but they destroy natural immunity, which just doesn't feel like the way to go to me, unless there is no other option. I really hope to get through this without antibiotics.

I do believe that besides doing an herbal protocol and spiritual work I have other things to deal with, like a mouth full of bad teeth, possible mold, EMF's etc...Not going to be easy or quick, but I know this ahead of time and have settled in for the long, slow fix. It helps that I began feeling better almost immediately after starting the herbs.
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply