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Posted 3/21/2015 5:14 AM (GMT 0)
I believe stress has a lot to do with getting and staying in remission and I think it has something to do with making those of us prone to this disease to get it when if we were in another environment it may not have been triggered.
Posted 3/21/2015 8:18 PM (GMT 0)
This is anecdotal (sp?) but I can say that I just had my first flare (that I know of) after a long winter of inactivity and certainly some depression. I've also, for the first time in my life, had anxiety for irrational reasons. I've never been claustrophobic but over the past year have developed it in certain circumstances. This was all leading up to my flare so I find the study interesting.
Posted 3/21/2015 9:09 PM (GMT 0)
Anxiety is very different from just normal stress... just like depression is different from just being sad... so for everyone saying 'stress never causes me flares', that's irrelevant. It's a mental condition, not a rational reaction.
Posted 3/22/2015 1:25 AM (GMT 0)
I thought anxiety was also a form of mental illness. I also don't know anyone that isn't stressed about something, sure some life things are bigger stressors than others but also some people might handle the same type of stress very differently too.
Posted 3/22/2015 5:56 PM (GMT 0)
UC is a modern day disease. You wont believe it but people today have 10 times less stress then 100 or 200 years ago.
Let me say few examples people had a lot more kids in the past and it was normal for them that some kids die before parents. Every winter was more than 10 times harder to survive. People were working almost all day to survive. Healthcare was privilege of the less than 10 percent. You wont believe me but we
live far less stressed then people before.
Posted 3/22/2015 6:56 PM (GMT 0)
You're right, I don't believe that...IBD has been around for well over 100 years, and people from the past have lived stressful lives, often the stress was the same as today's stress, money, family, health, having the basic necessities of life (food, clothing, a roof over one's head, etc). People today live with many of the same stress as people from century's ago. Today's world has even more stresses, more rare diseases, more common diseases, probably more mental health issues as well. And many people today struggle with the healthcare issues of today...not being able to afford tests so they have no way of getting properly DX and treatment (not to mention treatment costs and side effects and the fact that treatments don't work for all).

Some people weren't able to have children way back when, just like today and some people had many children, just like today, it may not be as common to have more children but many still do start large families.

Also, some people stress about certain things while for others those certain things don't stress them. It's always been a complex world regardless of the times.
Posted 3/22/2015 7:25 PM (GMT 0)
Sorry but I dont agree with you. People today lives better than anytime in history. People today have less mental issues, less diseases.
Have you ever heard about a story about Hanzel and Gretzel. Well the original story was that parents left their kids in forest because they didnt have food for them to survive. So people where fighting hunger the way they left their kids in nature to die.( Not all the time but they really have done that ) I am not sure about the exact date but slavery was legal 200 years ago or something like that. If diseases are something it is chemistry. We use chemicals more then anytime in history, so with new use of chemicals here comes new diseases. You have things like antibacterial soaps,
they put antibiotics in lots of other things. Maybe their is the answer for some diseases I am not sure to be honest. Just one more thing when in the past there was some diseases like flu it was normal that almost all village has died it wasnt just problem that you didnt have cure, people have lived in terrible conditions.
Posted 3/22/2015 7:46 PM (GMT 0)
Many people around the globe still live in terrible conditions, there is still homelessness, hunger/death from starvation, higher incidents of diseases that kill people in parts of the world (Ebola for one example), slavery (child labor) abuse, you name it, it still exists all around you. People still die today from the flu (influenza still takes lives all across north america) even without the chemicals you're referring to, people still suffer from "new diseases" diseases that likely are even likely linked to diseases from centuries ago, who knows. Typically if an entire village died it was from a plague that swept through.

People today definitely do not have less mental and health issues or less diseases, more and more there are even rare diseases that likely didn't exist centuries ago.

The biggest difference in the world today from centuries ago, is there are simply more people than ever. As far as people in general, they are still the same as they were centuries ago, there is still all kinds of health issues people are born with and live with today as people from the past did.
Posted 3/22/2015 8:05 PM (GMT 0)
You are right that people today also live in terrible conditions, but in the past all people lived in terrible conditions. Let me say it this way if we were born in 2333 there would be probably cure for this. If you need to choose anytime in history to got some disease now is the best time if you dont count future.
The people that had best lives in lets say 1700 was aristocracy and you live far far better than them.
Regarding stress and mental issues 99 percent of history was just surviving not living.
Today people are lets call it chasing money, so they can have better lives. Some few hundred years ago people were just trying to survive. It is far less stressful if people are chasing money then just survival.
I believe that sometimes in the future people will think about IBD it is something really not worth mentioning ( like today going to the dentist ) curable in one day I just hope it will be really soon.
And speaking about the dentist imagine having that pain without painkillers.
Regarding that today we live far better then aristocracy prince Albert husband from queen Victoria had IBD
his wife was maybe the most powerful person in the world in that time so he had the best healthcare in the world but it wasnt even 5 percent what we have today.

Post Edited (funnyplay) : 3/22/2015 2:20:49 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/22/2015 8:19 PM (GMT 0)

funnyplay said...
Sorry but I dont agree with you. People today lives better than anytime in history. People today have less mental issues, less diseases.
Have you ever heard about a story about Hanzel and Gretzel. Well the original story was that parents left their kids in forest because they didnt have food for them to survive. So people where fighting hunger the way they left their kids in nature to die.( Not all the time but they really have done that ) I am not sure about the exact date but slavery was legal 200 years ago or something like that. If diseases are something it is chemistry. We use chemicals more then anytime in history, so with new use of chemicals here comes new diseases. You have things like antibacterial soaps,
they put antibiotics in lots of other things. Maybe their is the answer for some diseases I am not sure to be honest. Just one more thing when in the past there was some diseases like flu it was normal that almost all village has died it wasnt just problem that you didnt have cure, people have lived in terrible conditions.

Again...... you are confusing rational stress in response to environmental stimuli with anxiety, an IRRATIONAL mental illness.
Posted 3/22/2015 8:19 PM (GMT 0)
People have been "chasing money" since it came about, it's just that only very few people had access to it and the ones that did likely lived far better lives in many ways then many people today..people have always been chasing money, that hasn't nor will it ever change and it doesn't necessarily create a better life, it just depends on what issues a person has, but the same could be said for those that aren't "money chasers", some people with little money have better lives than others with a ton of it. It's always been a crazy world, it always will be IMO. One thing for sure, I wouldn't want to be born in this day and age or in the future either.

To each their own of course. Everyone has a different view of life and what survival means to them.
Posted 3/22/2015 8:27 PM (GMT 0)
I think that you dont understand me people are chasing money for some goal, today it is not just survival.
They want better cars, flats vacations..... In the past they needed money just to survive. In the past healthcare was only for aristocracy today really a lot more people has access to it. ( again it is a small and non humane number )
Sorry must go out now I wish that you stay in remission and get better with IBS
Posted 3/22/2015 8:34 PM (GMT 0)
Malaika i know what you wanna say and IMO you are a bit right, but stress is in lots of times cause of depression and anxiety. If it is not cause in 100 percent cases people with any mental issues need to be out of stress. You are maybe not believing me but today is the less stressful time in history.
Posted 3/22/2015 9:15 PM (GMT 0)
I don't think people's perception of money has changed over the centuries, some have been money-hungry while others are more easily content just like some people are very materialistic while others feel the less you have the better because for them it simplistic and maybe helps them live a more stress-free life, but everyone has stress to some degree in their lives and often for different reasons.

Thanks for your wishes, I hope so too. Take care!
Posted 3/22/2015 10:30 PM (GMT 0)
funnyplay, your body does not know what year it is nor does it make the distinction as to why you are stressed. Its fight-or-flight response can be triggered for many different reasons, whether its because you're being chased by a big cat or are simply overworked at your desk job.
Posted 3/23/2015 3:40 PM (GMT 0)

funnyplay said...
Malaika i know what you wanna say and IMO you are a bit right, but stress is in lots of times cause of depression and anxiety. If it is not cause in 100 percent cases people with any mental issues need to be out of stress. You are maybe not believing me but today is the less stressful time in history.

No no, I 100% agree with you that life is better now than it ever has been, and stressors are fewer than at any other point in history, especially for us in developed countries. But mental illness doesn't listen to reason. Anxiety, by definition, is your body wrongly telling you to prepare for danger where there is none - it's very much like UC in that sense. Saying 'why are you depressed, your life is great, you have nothing to be sad about' is the number one misconception about how mental illness actually works, and is a very harmful myth to promote.
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