Stress has caused me a terrible flare

Blah! I have to agree with you. I wasn’t sure how much the pandemic/lockdown got to me, but these last few weeks have been not good. I went to see my neurologist and he said...how have you been handling what’s been going on....I didn’t realize until that moment that I haven’t been handling it well at all. I went from sterilizing everything...including family members in my home to not wearing masks around people I don’t even know (I live near the Wisconsin border and they had been a lot more lenient with restrictions until recently). It’s the whole unknown thing that has me so stressed and that in turn has caused my symptoms (including ones I never had before) to appear. That on top of other every day stresses. I’ve been trying to work on relaxation techniques to help combat the excessive stress.

 

Vipassana is a mediation practice that works, & can be practiced & employed long-term.

Cultivating this quality of mind has been shown to modulate pain, mitigate anxiety & depression, improve cognitive function, & produce changes in gray matter density in regions of the brain related to learning & memory, emotional regulation, & self awareness.

 

Meditation.

 

Stress is a killer for me! Sometimes it’s so hard to avoid it, especially these days.