Part of the way I approach any chronic illness nowadays is psychological – mind-body-healing and vagus nerve work mainly – as well as the biochemical/nutrition/functional medicine side.
When someone experiences a traumatic event, the sympathetic nervous system activates the fight or flight response to respond to danger. For some people, the nervous system gets stuck in an overactive state and is unable to calm down.
Alex Howard, Optimum Health Clinic
Long-term activation of the stress response system can cause a range of physical and mental health problems, including fatigue, anxiety, depression, insomnia, digestive issues, and low mood.
But the nervous system can be rebalanced at any point in life to create an optimal healing state.
You can read much more on this subject on my ACE & Trauma-Triggered Illness Factsheet here, my Vagus Factsheet – proving to be one of my most popular ebooks now – and my Healing Plan here, which I wrote to show you what I did/still do to a much lesser extent to overcome my own trauma-triggered hypersensitivity illness.
Don’t be a dork like me – I ignored this stuff in my own chronic illness case for far too long. I only started healing properly once I began working on the trauma side. I didn’t even think I had trauma – how wrong was I?!!
You can also see a quick video I did here on some of these techniques: