Chronic stress – physical or emotional or environmental, even past stress like difficult childhoods, causes changes in our hormones that come from the Limbic System.
One of the neurohormones (neuro=brain) is ACTH. That is a hormone that stimulates cortisol release. Cortisone is very necessary for survival, but if there is too much it causes problems, like weight gain, fluid retention, excess bruising, weak bones, to name just a few side effects.
After a long time of stress, the cortisone becomes depleted. One very important problem is changes in your electrolytes – potassium the most important. Potassium affects muscles including your heart muscles and rhythm. Early on, when there is too much cortisone, your potassium is low. When your cortisone gets depleted, it goes up.
How can we fix this? To fix it, you need to understand the limbic system.
How do we fix this? Here is a Two-Step program that is a start – the more you do, the quicker the result and the more likely you respond. Good Luck.
High alarm in the limbic system causes inflammation which can cause pain or even skin rashes. Sometimes we can’t even identify where the stress is coming from. Lets start with my patient show shared her story.
Shirley was hit by a car when she was six years old. She wasn’t badly injured apart from a brief loss of consciousness. She didn’t go to hospital (this makes me doubt that she had the ‘normal’ childhood she says she had. This is a form of neglect – maybe her mother was ignorant of the danger or she also was stressed or she had a difficult childhood which is the in her genes and passed down.) Anway . . .
Now there is this trauma stuck in the limbic system – we call this a trigger node. When Shirley had another motor vehicle accident, this strengthened that trigger node. Every time Shirley feels unsafe, the trigger nodes gets stronger.
Have a look at this video and rethink your ideas of ?what is an injury? and what is the resulting pain? There is more psychological pain in this story – a feeling of lack of safety – than physical pain.
Check out this video
Good Luck
Judy