Childhood

I had a good childhood, but miserable teenage years due to being bullied. However, I didn't get any symptoms until I was about 21. My dad died of cancer about the same sort of time though.

Izzy13 said...
Anyhow, this thread was meant to ponder the supposed correlation between colitis and an unstable childhood. That is a dangerous assumption to make for many obvious reasons, the most apparent of which are the facts that many people are unwilling to disclose personal information (bringing into question the accuracy of the initial claim) and our community on this website represents a minuscule percentage of IBD sufferers. Although troublesome childhoods may impact the mental and physical wellbeing of an individual, I do not see how they could be directly responsible for the development of autoimmune diseases.

It's just one possible correlation out of many, many possible correlations. I find it interesting that the discussion of the mere possibility of a link between psychological factors and UC seems to make you uncomfortable. Well, I had a horrible childhood and I am far from mentally healthy, so I am interested in this even if you are not.

much of psychology is anything but accurate with a half life of knowledge that lasts roughly 5 years

Er, yeah. Okay.


It is the introduction of child abuse to the picture that makes me critical.

I got that from your previous posts. Child abuse is hard to define (see: the people in this thread claiming that teasing and bullying is a normal part of childhood; where does normal experience start turning into abuse? Or perhaps the 'normal' experience itself is abusive, but that makes people too uncomfortable, so they don't want to think about it). But if it's the childhood abuse aspect which bothers you, then just reframe it as chronic psychological stress, or whatever. Because there is absolutely no doubt left that prolonged stress of the "bad" type is unhealthy for humans.

Whether that type of bad stress is capable of inducing IBD in genetically-susceptible people remains to be seen. It seems to contribute to relapses, though.

gut.bmj.com/content/54/10/1481.full.pdf

Although given that it was published in 2005, nearly 10 years ago, its knowledge will already have 'decayed' by nearly 75%.

haha soy -I hope you don't mean me!

soystud said...
(not you nice)

I should think not! ¬_¬

I had a stressful childhood. I was not bullied, however there was alot of stress coming from inside the family, mostly from my sister. She was such a bully and i had to literally live with in the same room at some stage. She was absolutely nuts: she would play with me then if i ever won in any game she would flip and start hitting, spitting and breaking my stuff.

Also, we emigrated to australia when i was a teenager and it was hard leaving all your friends and tring fit into a new school with a new language.

My life started to really look up though while at university, and that's when the IBS started, it was mild though and i'm very thankful for being able to live through those years without an IBD.

My life would be absolutely perfect now if it wasn't for this darned disease. God i hate this disease so much. It just ruins everything.