Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) describes a sense of exhaustion and post-exertion malaise, even when you have gotten enough rest and sleep. The disease is characterized by six months of incapacitating fatigue experienced as profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina, and problems with concentration and short-term memory. The cause is unknown, but it is a...
I really want to expand this to asking:
"Do you think it is possible for us to carry within us, and therefore develop symptoms within ourselves from, a family member's pain?"
What if someone we love has been traumatized, i.e. my mother and father during their childhoods, and because they did not have the support system to process that trauma it gets stuck and passed down to the next generation to process? And possibly the next generation too?
What if suffering (in all its forms) is just energetics and it has to exist somewhere until it finally is brought to the forefront and released in some way?
I read an interesting article that mothers who had been traumatized as children interacted with their infants differently than those who hadn't. That trauma has a way of blunting our neurology so that we become less capable of receiving stimuli and responding, reflecting.
Sometimes I feel like I have carried my parents' losses and pains all my life, not because they asked me to, just because I was sensitive to what I knew about them. I know it has caused excess stress in my life because I couldn't help them heal. So I wonder about it.
"Do you think it is possible for us to carry within us, and therefore develop symptoms within ourselves from, a family member's pain?"
What if someone we love has been traumatized, i.e. my mother and father during their childhoods, and because they did not have the support system to process that trauma it gets stuck and passed down to the next generation to process? And possibly the next generation too?
What if suffering (in all its forms) is just energetics and it has to exist somewhere until it finally is brought to the forefront and released in some way?
I read an interesting article that mothers who had been traumatized as children interacted with their infants differently than those who hadn't. That trauma has a way of blunting our neurology so that we become less capable of receiving stimuli and responding, reflecting.
Sometimes I feel like I have carried my parents' losses and pains all my life, not because they asked me to, just because I was sensitive to what I knew about them. I know it has caused excess stress in my life because I couldn't help them heal. So I wonder about it.
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
Yes, this theory is possible. The epigenome thing. Sometimes it can go back generations, something that happened 2 or 3 or 4 generations back. But for me, I can go to my parents' parents. My father's father committed suicide, and my mother had a father who had to take his mother with him on his honeymoon... Stories are she wasn't the most pleasant of women.
Just a little stress on the genes there, folks.
NOVA: Ghost in the Genes.
Also, something every PWC should look into is the KNOW YOUR FAMILY A.Q. . If you have CFS, does anyone in your extended family past and present have an auto-immune situation. Mine does. It won't answer every occasion of CFS occurring but it might for some.
Try being the operative... Succeed, another thing entirely.
Yes.
Andrew
So yes. Coming and going.