Hi
@BlueBay .....
I mentioned my daughter being psychosomatic to you as her pain is there all the time, or at least very often.
I have had psychosomatic episodes that have presented like panic attacks ..... the most recent one was in January this year, and because I was kept overnight in hospital, I saw a neurologist. They had been concerned about something neurological but all the testing came back clear, as it did for blood results, etc ...... so the good news is that I am in good shape over all.
The took the severit of my home circumstances very seriously, but also recognise that whatever path I choose is not likely to be any less stressful than another, and the basis fo my episodes is seated in out circumstances, which they can’t help me to fix any more than what is already in place.
What they could do was to provide strategies for managing the symptoms and reducing them, while I work in whichever way I can to reduce the underlying distress I am faced with. To relate that to you, you need to practice the behaviours and strategies to help reduce your physical symptoms, and medications can help with the pain, while you work with your psych to address the underlying psychological causes.
This will be highly stressful to begin with, as you are finding, but like pulling out a badly infected tooth, the pain and emotional “inflammation” will gradually reduce to a more manageable state.
Does that make sense ?
Hi
@utopia @Owlunar .... anyone else here .....
