This was my mum's night light.
M'reen Hunt (c)
M'reen Hunt (c)
Anniversary illness and stress.
When my eldest daughter was 14 she went to Italy and had
adventures that her life had not prepared her for. She coped exceptionally well
and when she came home asked if she could visit a friend in the safe hamlet of
Irwell Vale. I responded, “If you think you’re going out at this time of night
lady you’ve got another think coming!” During the September of her return and
the September’s for many years after I suffered extreme hair loss, this
anniversary stress eventually migrated to October as it became less obvious
until it expired completely. It’s a fact that alopecia can be stress induced; as
losing your hair with worry or tearing your hair out is an turn of phrase that
can be expressed in fact.
Also the longer your hair lies dormant the more colour it
loses; as if I care.
I’ve read that someone’s hay fever was an anniversary
stress response. This means that each year the anniversary of a stressful
period is re-enacted. Just think of
bottled up emotions that cannot be expressed! A quick lifting of the head as
you sniff and blink away your emotions, swollen red eyes that leak tears, a
dribbley nose that requires lots of tissues, a tight throat that you can’t get
your words of despair past and the held breath that tightens and lifts your
chest.
When I did my Diploma in Counselling or maybe it was my
Stress and Anxiety management course
we were advised to ‘inoculate’ people for
anniversary stress. I always did with the people I worked
with for Victim
Support and in private practice.
Speaking with a gardener he told me that for the last 15
years each October his brother went
to the Doctor’s for an antidepressant
course of medication that lasted till March as he had SAD.
SAD used to be diagnosed as depression until it was
recognised as a separate issue. I asked him specifically what happened in
October 15 years ago and he immediately told me of a stressful incident. I
think rather than anti depressants his brother would be better served with
working with
the energy that is locking in and maintaining that stressful
response that pops up each October.
For very sad reasons I did not want to travel over 200
miles during the Christmas snow conditions
so my mind obligingly produced an
infection of the soft pallet; that is the soft bit at the roof of your mouth.
The circumstances were repeated the following year and the soft pallet
infection provided the necessary excuse. By year 3 a practical situation had
changed and I let go of the Christmas guilt trip, but I still had the infection
and recognised that this was an anniversary stress and told myself that
I
simply refused to be ill and the infection lasted a few hours. In year 4 the
infection only lasted minutes as I refused to succumb. This is quite easy as
I’ve not had a cold for well over 10 years.
As soon as I’m aware of a cold coming on I repeatedly
tell myself that I simply refuse to have a cold.
I admit there is a little gremlin whispering, ‘what if it
doesn’t work this time?’ I reply with some trepidation that, ‘it would ruin my
reputation.’ I continue to repeat these and a cold has always
cleared in a few
hours. Now I just need to master flu.
OK, not had flu for some years.
OK, not had flu for some years.
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can TCR specialist and
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accessed.
I
can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times
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I
can TCR an
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read.
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To quote the
Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more
that you learn; the more places you'll go.”
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