IsThisForReal
Member
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2016
- Messages
- 27
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 07/2016
- Country
- CA
- State
- ON
I am new, so please bear w/ me.
I am desperate to find ways to decrease the madness and have a question about cause/effect.
I live a very stressful existence.
I have lived a life that always required me to bounce back from something major and deep down, I knew that I would eventually become ill, no matter how resilient I had become.
I half expected that it would cause a mental breakdown or multiple personality disorder (used to crack off about how I'd managed to survive x, y or z without becoming mentally ill), but never imagined a time where my body would just shut down.
I have read about the potential causes of FM & don't think that there are any ways to reverse those effects, but wondered if this is the type of illness that progresses to a more severe state w/ persistent stress. I understand it can instigate/accelerate illness, but does stress continue to damage the body (nerves) and wreak more havoc over time?
Problem is, short of leaving my husband and kids behind and starting anew, there are just some things that I cannot change about the stressors in my life.
I realize that I am in control of how I respond to those things and there are things that most able bodied people can do to help manage them, but that is likely the reason I found myself in this position to begin with because that often meant I had to do the job of 10 men to minimize the madness with them (each have their own issues/disabilities).
I can't imagine it getting any worse than this and have to figure out where to go from here. It is near impossible to function.
I am desperate to find ways to decrease the madness and have a question about cause/effect.
I live a very stressful existence.
I have lived a life that always required me to bounce back from something major and deep down, I knew that I would eventually become ill, no matter how resilient I had become.
I half expected that it would cause a mental breakdown or multiple personality disorder (used to crack off about how I'd managed to survive x, y or z without becoming mentally ill), but never imagined a time where my body would just shut down.
I have read about the potential causes of FM & don't think that there are any ways to reverse those effects, but wondered if this is the type of illness that progresses to a more severe state w/ persistent stress. I understand it can instigate/accelerate illness, but does stress continue to damage the body (nerves) and wreak more havoc over time?
Problem is, short of leaving my husband and kids behind and starting anew, there are just some things that I cannot change about the stressors in my life.
I realize that I am in control of how I respond to those things and there are things that most able bodied people can do to help manage them, but that is likely the reason I found myself in this position to begin with because that often meant I had to do the job of 10 men to minimize the madness with them (each have their own issues/disabilities).
I can't imagine it getting any worse than this and have to figure out where to go from here. It is near impossible to function.