Flare-ups possible due to emotional upheavan?
I have a question which has been bothering me for some time:
Is it possible, that an emotional upheaval or an emotional trauma causes
a Lupus/SLE flare-up and such a flare-up can last for many years,
which leaves me in complete limbo, unable to do or achieve anything really ...
for as long as this trauma/emotional upheaval lasts, which causes a severe flare-up?
For example: I am under the impression that through my Lupus/SLE
my emotional barrriers and my thick skin (which protects any other person)
has been completely eroded since my birth and because of that
I am "hit" much harder by emotional upheavals/traumas
than healthy people who do NOT suffer from Lupus/SLE ?
I don't think my resulting flare-ups are psychosomatic, but I believe
that my disease SLE/MCTD has eroded genetically (?) my "psychological barriers",
a barrier that protects healthy people. Can that be?
"In the old days" I was usually trying to walk away from problematic situations,
in order to avoid a flare-up, but these emotional upheavals/traumas were bothering me severely
all the same and because of that I could not really avoid a flare-up, even if I tried.
Has anyone noticed such a problem as well?
Are there any tricks to train myself to develop such a barrier?
Why am I so oversensitive that emotional traumas and emotional upheavals cause me flare-ups
sometimes even life dangerous flare-ups? Is there any way to avoid that?
(I mean, I can't possibly live in a glass house, but is there a way
to develop a "thick skin" and be better protected?
How do yoy deal then with emotional upheavals/traumas? Do you also get flare-ups because of it?
Thank you from Kristina.
Is it possible, that an emotional upheaval or an emotional trauma causes
a Lupus/SLE flare-up and such a flare-up can last for many years,
which leaves me in complete limbo, unable to do or achieve anything really ...
for as long as this trauma/emotional upheaval lasts, which causes a severe flare-up?
For example: I am under the impression that through my Lupus/SLE
my emotional barrriers and my thick skin (which protects any other person)
has been completely eroded since my birth and because of that
I am "hit" much harder by emotional upheavals/traumas
than healthy people who do NOT suffer from Lupus/SLE ?
I don't think my resulting flare-ups are psychosomatic, but I believe
that my disease SLE/MCTD has eroded genetically (?) my "psychological barriers",
a barrier that protects healthy people. Can that be?
"In the old days" I was usually trying to walk away from problematic situations,
in order to avoid a flare-up, but these emotional upheavals/traumas were bothering me severely
all the same and because of that I could not really avoid a flare-up, even if I tried.
Has anyone noticed such a problem as well?
Are there any tricks to train myself to develop such a barrier?
Why am I so oversensitive that emotional traumas and emotional upheavals cause me flare-ups
sometimes even life dangerous flare-ups? Is there any way to avoid that?
(I mean, I can't possibly live in a glass house, but is there a way
to develop a "thick skin" and be better protected?
How do yoy deal then with emotional upheavals/traumas? Do you also get flare-ups because of it?
Thank you from Kristina.
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Hi Kristina,
I saw your journal entry and wanted to reply. I\'m in the diagnostic phases for an autoimmune illness and not yet diagnosed.
I\'ve wondered about your same question... Except for me it was more like \"can emotional turmoil cause an autoimmune disease?\" For a couple of years before my symptoms flared up for the first time, I was psychologically weird. Not my normal behavior at all.
To your journal above, I think it\'s ok for us to be sensitive and emotional. Do you ever see prople who aren\'t emotional? They\'re like robots! Better to acknowledge and welcome the emotions that are there (I\'m working on that).
Sleep well,
Tricia
Hello, Tricia,
Your question is very interesting indeed, when you wonder if an emotional turmoil can even cause an autoimmune disease? My thoughts on that are that perhaps the SLE/MCTD can be \"latent\" without any significance for many years and perhaps the diseases can fully \"develop\" during an emotional turmoil ? After all, the impact of emotional turmoils on the hormones have not yet been fully investigated, have they ? (...And we know already that SLE/MCTD flare-ups often depend on hormonal upsets as well...)
You are right, it is better to be sensitive and emotional as a cultivated human being, there is no doubt about it..
But the trouble is, that many important jobs and positions are occupied by robots (who are with no feelings and without any emotions whatsoever, who could not care, over how many dead bodies they have climbed on the way up on the social and financial ladder...). I have also noticed that it has become a big problem. Would you not agree? I try hard to \"overcome\" my sensitive, cultivated upbringing, which unfortunately seems to be inappropriate in the year 2013 to give me a chance and get somewhere with my career and my life, because with my sensitivity and cultivated behaviour, plus my suffering from SLE/MCTD flare-ups I seem to be constantly victimized by such robots...
What do you think?
All I can say is that I emotionally freaked just before my symptoms flared. Once I stopped exercising so hard, my emotions evened out. I feel fairly sane most days now.