People with Complex PTSD often have medical unexplained physical symptoms such as abdominal pains, headaches, joint and muscle pain, stomach problems, and elimination problems.*These people are sometimes most unfortunately mislabeled as hypochondriacs or as exaggerating their physical problems.*But these problems are real, even though they may not be related to a specific physical diagnosis.*Some dissociative parts are stuck in the past experiences that involved pain may intrude such that a person experiences unexplained pain or other physical symptoms.*And more generally, chronic stress affects the body in all just as it does the mind.*In fact, the mind and body cannot be separated. Unfortunately, the connection between current physical symptoms and past traumatizing events is not always so clear to either the individual or the physician, at least for a while.
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At the same time we know that people who have suffered from serious medical problems.*It is therefore very important that you have physical problems checked out, to make sure you do not have a problem form which you need medical help.
Posted by kaitlots on March 6, 2012 at 4:00 pm
I struggle with this. I constantly try to breathe and remain present. Not add any fuel to the fire. The ego wants me to believe I am dying. But I haven’t yet!
Posted by Marty on March 6, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Remember there is pain and then suffering.
Pain plus our stress, fear, reaction, avoidance, dissociative thoughts, etc equals suffering.
Let us be aware of the real pain and remove the suffering partly our experience.
Give it no attention and be present, experience life and it will recede even more.
I,live my life in pain, but I pay it as little attention as possible.
What fires together wires together. I have learned through exercise and meditating to not give pain concern or time in my consciousness. If I fed my pain I would be incapacitated with opioids, which the doctors retried early on.
it is my job to use the body and mind I have right now as best as I can.
never give up, never give in.
Take action with fear as a companion, take a step, one. It will lead to more, take action. Resist fight for your freedom.