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- Stress leads to inflammation which then breaks the autoimmune system and causes disease
- View illness as an external condition affecting you so you get more agency to treat it
- Problematic childhoods make us repress anger and become people pleasers until all that catches up on us. Also makes one seek attention
- Turn self-accusation into curiosity and shame into “response ability”
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- View illness as an external condition affecting you so you get more agency to treat it
- Problematic childhoods make us repress anger and become people pleasers until all that catches up on us. Also makes one seek attention
- Turn self-accusation into curiosity and shame into “response ability”
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- Trauma is greek for wound
- All traumatic events are stressful but not all stress is equivalent to trauma.
- It is best resolved by treating it as something happening within [mind-body] as opposed to some external fate from childhood.
- Self-examination and the capacity to identify one’s triggers can get quite handy.
- Practice emotional flexibility; learning not to overreact or “punish” others.
— Jan 07, 2026 03:25AM
- All traumatic events are stressful but not all stress is equivalent to trauma.
- It is best resolved by treating it as something happening within [mind-body] as opposed to some external fate from childhood.
- Self-examination and the capacity to identify one’s triggers can get quite handy.
- Practice emotional flexibility; learning not to overreact or “punish” others.
