Hi,
well, apart from the cold I caught off my friends kids I’ve been fine.
The treatment course is based around the maladaptive stress response and the way they explain it makes total sense – basically you are walking around in a constant stressed state – although you may not realise it due to feeling fine most of the time. Think of it like a frog put in boiling water will jump out, but if you put a frog in cold water and boil it up it won’t move – same with this – you gradually build up your levels so it feels normal but actually you are hyperstressed at a subconcious level.
The key areas they say are that
1. You are in a constant stressed state and this has become the norm – hence why you don’t recover after having a restful nights sleep.
2. Thought processes don’t help as they keep you in that stressed state which produces all the chemicals / hormones which cause the physilogical symptoms
3. The way to overcome it is calming the mind down and retraining the subconcious to react differently to bring that constant state of stress down over time to something normal.
Think of it like riding your bike at Max HR all the time rather than an average of 130-140bpm. Over time you’d burn out if your were always at MaxHR, but at 130-140bpm (which most people would ride at) you would be able to last for longer. So you have to adapt a different way to ride / think
Does that make any sense???
The best bit of the time spent with them was meeting other suffereres with different symptoms but all having the same condition. The differences made you realise that it was down to this stress response as you could see everyone’s anxiety about doing the wrong things, eating the wrongs things, over doing it etc. That was the biggest eye opener.
