Mind and body connection

Can you imagine experiencing sickness, or suffering immeasurable trauma, then expected to just get up and live

Because if you don’t get up the assumptions and judgements are placed, risking unwanted admission where trauma is just relived

How can a person be seen as just in their head, when they fell unwillingly victim, in a situation out of their control they were stripped of there dignity

So it’s alarming, fearful for them when someone makes brief assessments, places labels, barges into their vicinity

Hypervigilance is real for sure because the unexpected happened, so anything is in the realm of possibility

And this leads sometimes their emotions to waver, so yes with mental health this leads to susceptibility

Yes my search is always to find resolve so I regularly read the body keeps the score, and to ignore the relationship between physical and cognitive would be unsurpassable

In my experience I have learnt when listening to my body, extending kindness, forgiveness and grace, what my trauma identifies through body is remarkable

So please understand I am not dismissive of what you say because the reality is professionals are knowledgeable and the doctor at the end of the day

I guess my weakness is I am in-tuned, educated in mental health and since using and accessing this resource, I find the system grey

Because as a professional and individual my ambition has always been to see somebody not just for what they have experienced but what is inside

And I’ve found that my personal interactions with mental health are being misjudged, the conceptualisation of what I am going through misconstrued and that leaves me terrified

I appreciate your words, support, because they give me assurance that maybe I won’t be left in a system that’s not therapeutic and will lead me sadly to fail

If allowed time, explanation I can show, demonstrate the strategies that I daily hold in place, because for me the personal goal is quality of life and I continue to prevail

So I guess my point is to affirm that I’m listening, giving everyday my all, soaking up advice that you say

I’ve just never had such mind body disconnect, so I’m trying to be my best supporter, navigate and ensure adequate and holistic treatment so recovery and health is not delayed