This is a huge one,! Thank you for bringing clarity. I feel like a 2000 piece puzzle, and I am getting the pieces....one by one now. I am starting to feel closer to understanding my health.
After 60 years of practice as an originally analytically trained Psychoanalyst-Psychologist, who traveled the world learning, teaching educating and consulting as much information as I was able to integrate, I agree with you and your approach.
To start with the English language is sloppy.
If we paid attention to basic sentences they tell us a great deal.
For example: how often do people use the term “I’ve got something under my skin?”Then they break out in a rash or something more. For most a dermatological prescribed and applied med suffices. It may help. However, it treats the symptom not the cause.
Or a UTI, when there is no physical anomaly.
Simple to understand. It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Stress, in my opinion, is another word that is tossed around relatively uselessly. One is simply given a pill that they often don’t need.
Stress, of course, has a physiological concomitant, which you explain well.
But what does stress really mean? Am I having trouble with my relationships? Am I working three jobs and not sleeping enough? Am I worried about my kids or my parents? Many of these situations are what I think of as issues of everyday life. By not asking, what is going on, most Western professionals tend to medicalize and treat or not treat symptoms instead of causes Few prevent. Prevention takes a different kind of skill and an ability to listen.
In very long career, 60 years or so,I’ve been privileged to work with some out of the box Drs. and healers who understand they do not have all the answers and are wise enough to ask for outside help.
I appreciate the clarity of your explanations. Integrative Medicine and Healing means precisely that. We each use our unique gifts
to help those in need.
And most of us are in need at some point or another in our lives. Encouraging people to be proactive and to reach out matters.
This makes so much sense to me. After getting normal cortisol blood labs I just felt like there was more to the story. I really need to work with someone like you Dagmara who doesn't just read the labs and say everything is normal. It clearly is NOT and I am so TIRED of feeling like garbage! I need real answers to why I am so tired all the time and have no energy for my life... PS do you have any recommendations for a functional doctor in the Washington state area?
"Stress is not a feeling you push through". Bingo. I wish I would have realized that a long time ago. I started out with high cortisol in the evening when I first tested - then it changed to a low normal and now it's almost flatlined. A combination of work stress, relationship stress and a bad flu etc that my body didn't have the energy to deal with. I always turned to exercise and supplements to get me going again until recently. Now I am exhausted after a little exercise. Lesson learned - resting and walking away from draining situations is being responsible. Now what though?
A huge thank you. This makes enormous sense. I recognize myself in most of the symptoms. I keep hoping if I come up with a better sleep hygiene routine I’ll sleep through the night. Tomorrow morning I’m getting my thyroid labs run for my appointment next Monday. Do I ask the endocrinologist for the morning cortisol bloodwork? And if you live in a rural part of the world, how do you find the functional practices? I hear different things about functional medicine versus integrated medicine. How should I assess if I’m going to journey to an urban area?
Even though I'm a man, this perfectly describes my condition. Not getting proper sleep, middle of the night wakeup, coffee Not doing the job in the morning, spare tire tummy syndrome, all of it. Thank you for the guidance!!
Stress causes so many health problems, but is probably the hardest thing to treat, because you can't just take a pill for it, it requires active awareness, and making changes to your mindset and routine to regulate and shift your nervous system to feel safe. Looking forward to part 2!
Looking forward to Thursday to understand what I can do about high cortisol and calming my nervous system.
The problem is free; fixing the problem will cost you ten bucks.
This is a huge one,! Thank you for bringing clarity. I feel like a 2000 piece puzzle, and I am getting the pieces....one by one now. I am starting to feel closer to understanding my health.
Dagmara,
After 60 years of practice as an originally analytically trained Psychoanalyst-Psychologist, who traveled the world learning, teaching educating and consulting as much information as I was able to integrate, I agree with you and your approach.
To start with the English language is sloppy.
If we paid attention to basic sentences they tell us a great deal.
For example: how often do people use the term “I’ve got something under my skin?”Then they break out in a rash or something more. For most a dermatological prescribed and applied med suffices. It may help. However, it treats the symptom not the cause.
Or a UTI, when there is no physical anomaly.
Simple to understand. It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Stress, in my opinion, is another word that is tossed around relatively uselessly. One is simply given a pill that they often don’t need.
Stress, of course, has a physiological concomitant, which you explain well.
But what does stress really mean? Am I having trouble with my relationships? Am I working three jobs and not sleeping enough? Am I worried about my kids or my parents? Many of these situations are what I think of as issues of everyday life. By not asking, what is going on, most Western professionals tend to medicalize and treat or not treat symptoms instead of causes Few prevent. Prevention takes a different kind of skill and an ability to listen.
In very long career, 60 years or so,I’ve been privileged to work with some out of the box Drs. and healers who understand they do not have all the answers and are wise enough to ask for outside help.
I appreciate the clarity of your explanations. Integrative Medicine and Healing means precisely that. We each use our unique gifts
to help those in need.
And most of us are in need at some point or another in our lives. Encouraging people to be proactive and to reach out matters.
This makes so much sense to me. After getting normal cortisol blood labs I just felt like there was more to the story. I really need to work with someone like you Dagmara who doesn't just read the labs and say everything is normal. It clearly is NOT and I am so TIRED of feeling like garbage! I need real answers to why I am so tired all the time and have no energy for my life... PS do you have any recommendations for a functional doctor in the Washington state area?
You can work with me virtually
Thank you Dagmara ♡
"Stress is not a feeling you push through". Bingo. I wish I would have realized that a long time ago. I started out with high cortisol in the evening when I first tested - then it changed to a low normal and now it's almost flatlined. A combination of work stress, relationship stress and a bad flu etc that my body didn't have the energy to deal with. I always turned to exercise and supplements to get me going again until recently. Now I am exhausted after a little exercise. Lesson learned - resting and walking away from draining situations is being responsible. Now what though?
A huge thank you. This makes enormous sense. I recognize myself in most of the symptoms. I keep hoping if I come up with a better sleep hygiene routine I’ll sleep through the night. Tomorrow morning I’m getting my thyroid labs run for my appointment next Monday. Do I ask the endocrinologist for the morning cortisol bloodwork? And if you live in a rural part of the world, how do you find the functional practices? I hear different things about functional medicine versus integrated medicine. How should I assess if I’m going to journey to an urban area?
Even though I'm a man, this perfectly describes my condition. Not getting proper sleep, middle of the night wakeup, coffee Not doing the job in the morning, spare tire tummy syndrome, all of it. Thank you for the guidance!!
Stress causes so many health problems, but is probably the hardest thing to treat, because you can't just take a pill for it, it requires active awareness, and making changes to your mindset and routine to regulate and shift your nervous system to feel safe. Looking forward to part 2!