Mind and body connection

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

Because if you don’t get up, the assumptions and judgments 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 their dignity. 

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

Hypervigilance is real for sure, because the unexpected happened, so nothing is in the realm of possibility.

And this sometimes leads 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 learned that 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 that I am in-tuned, educated in mental health and, since using and accessing this resource, I find the system gray.

Because as a professional individual, my ambition has always been to see somebody not just for what they have experienced but for 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 and 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, an explanation I can show, demonstrate the strategies that I hold in place daily, 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 my all every day, soaking up the advice that you say.

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