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Multiple Sclerosis.

Important: This article is for educational and wellbeing support only. It is not a diagnosis, treatment plan, or substitute for medical advice. If you have symptoms, a diagnosed condition, are pregnant, take medication, or are undergoing treatment, speak with a qualified healthcare professional before changing diet, supplements, or lifestyle.

Is caused by an auto immune attack on the nervous system. Causing the loss of Myelin, the protective, sheath around the nerves. Imagine a copper wire losing its plastic sheath. The same issue, which is a loss of signal (both communication and control) arise inside the body.

You may have experienced trauma and made you feel helpless and unprotected. By using anger to protect and defend yourself, you overcompensated for feeling helpless and unprotected during childhood. In some cases, clients feel too scared and powerless to express anger so they become submissive.

During a time of stress, Influential people disregarded your attempts to express yourself and did not listen to you.

You dissociated from your emotions as your environment was too stressful to process and digest. It is likely that you suffered consistent trauma (either in childhood or in a relationships) and in most cases, you are still in contact with the bullies are with the stressful environment.

You suppressed your truth and your boundaries, leaving you unable to discern when situations are becoming unhealthy or even abusive. The longer you stay in an abusive environment, the more acceptable it becomes. Your circumstance becomes normalised and you feel comfortable being uncomfortable.

Mistreatment, aggression, and lack of love have met your emotional needs.

Being in the backgrounds, being small or helpless, and given into influential people’s demands, kept you safe and out of harm’s way.

You have stop trying to be in control and have handed over control to others. Whenever you communicate your needs to an influential person or a bully, you fear they will attack you (either verbally or physically).

You are more likely to experience great tension and conflict with people of the same gender as the bully.

You often have a fear of success and also feel very undeserving of us. As a result, you often sabotage your personal progress and success. Everything is a challenge, and you punish yourself for feeling worthless. The insults from a bully has become internalised within you. You now project the same mistreatment onto yourself by self punishment and sabotaging your goals for the future.

People with this condition often avoid taking responsibility at all costs. You do not want to be more successful than a dominant the authority in the house. You do not want to start another attack or insult, so you have learned how to cope and survive during challenging times. You do not want to do anything that might alter or change your survival instincts and coping skills. You fear that if you change anything in your life, you cannot cope. You feel resentment, rage, or hostility towards past actions and people. You feel a great deal of frustration for not communicating better How you once felt or still feel.

They make you feel like you couldn’t voice your opinion which might cause upset and further attack.

You may feel that staying where you are safer, even if it means being stuck in a stagnant place. It’s at least safe from critic’s judgement or attack.

You may feel that you cannot control what is happening to you. This situation can make you feel like you have no choice but to give in and be controlled.

You are eager to please people and as a result, often lose track of your own journey.

You deeply feel conflicted with your goals and the expectations placed on you. You are facing a situation where you want to make changes. Your rigidity and unwillingness to change your lifestyle, and your fear of repeating past mistakes and trauma are sabotaging your progress. Your stubbornness, endurance and ability to survive the trauma have made you very inflexible, hard- shelled and ridged. Your stubborn streak kept you alive and emotionally sane, and you have no intention of changing that.

Your past trauma has exhausted you of all your energy and mental resource. Any changes might challenge what little resource is you have left. Being still and stagnant helps you to survive any challenging circumstances.

Reflective Questions.

Trauma could be related to feeling that there is no way out.

Fear of moving forward and away from self-sabotage and self-destruction. What are you afraid will happen? How does your current lifestyle keep you safe? You seem to have learned how to survive and cope. Moving away from what you know might attract knew abusive or upsetting circumstances.

You’re waiting for a bully to validate you. Why? What is the benefit of being validated by somebody who mistreats you?

Someone may have made you feel that you are in the way and useless. Who made you feel this way?

Fear of communicating with others. What happened in the past when you did? Explore the woman stages and how well your mother communicated herself while pregnant.

Explore separation trauma.

You do not want to be responsible for your life in future. Why? What are you scared of? What would happen if you did?

Stuck blaming others for your circumstances. What is the benefit of holding onto this blame?

Your boundaries were overstepped to a point where you just give in.

Trauma related to feeling out of control. What happened? How did it make you feel?

It is safe to make changes in your life. If not, why? Explore self-sabotaging and secondary gain to your current circumstances.

Explore disappointment in yourself and others.

You fear starting new routines. Why? What are you scared changing?

Explore self-sabotaging patterns relating to self-punishment. By whom did you feel punished? Why? How did that make you feel? Do you feel you have to punish yourself because you are a bad person and worthless?

You seem to avoid being completely present in your life. What you see is upsetting and you are resisting reality. How does this keep you safe?

You have had enough of being a nice person. You have suppressed your feelings and moved to a more stubborn and hard personality. You find safety in being this way. Explore personal relationships, especially the relationship with your parents.

You’re now experiencing the unconscious projection of your anger towards others onto yourself. You’re attacking and punishing yourself, resulting in self-sabotage. The self-sabotage only creates anger, frustration or a feeling of being unsupported and unprotected.

If you are a female, do you have a child? If yes, explore the trauma you experience when giving birth.

Did you feel wrapped too tightly in a blanket during infancy? If yes, then how did this make you feel? Explore reactions such as I can’t breathe, I can’t take a deep breath, suffocation, restraint of frustration because the lack of movement and feeling controlled.

You may have experienced head trauma during birth when you started to rotate. The child (you) moving through the cervix could have possibly skull damage as you move past your mothers spine, causing orientation, depth perception, and directional issues. Damage might not necessarily be evident at the time a head trauma later in life could trigger symptoms from the birth trauma. Explore the ancestral line. Was there any kind of mistreatment or above mentioned patterns? Explore whether there were hardships, wars, slavery and imprisonment, and sexual or physical offences. What was the ancestors date like? Exploring emotional and patterns that could have affected you in your lifetime and contribute to your physical disorders.

Explore pelvic problems as misalignment of the area may cause seemingly unrelated issues in the nervous system, tendons, muscles and joints.


References

  1. European Commission. EU Register of Nutrition and Health Claims. https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/labelling-and-nutrition/nutrition-and-health-claims/eu-register-health-claims_en
  2. European Commission. Nutrition and Health Claims. https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/labelling-and-nutrition/nutrition-and-health-claims_en