How Repressed Emotions Make Us Sick

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1. God, its like these mental health channels can read our minds when they upload

   1. Thinking the same thing, Randomly got their notification and was like okay here we go .

   2. Either that …or the human experience is just universal and we might not be as unique as we think we are.😅

   3. @@TerrorTerrosExactly

   4. I was just thinking of the possibility that my prolonged unusual stomach problems might be related to my anxiety and then this video shows up

   5. Literally just got done throwing up from a panic attack..

2. This is fascinating. I developed brain inflammation after a period of huge stress where I was suppressing my true feelings about a situation for two years. I partially lost my eyesight and got headaches, and the inflammation spread to both sides of my brain. The body keeps the score.

   1. I suffered sever chest pain and back pain for almost 2 years out of chronic anxiety and boredom. I was a highly functional depressed employee for 3 years until I realized that my pain is psychosomatic.

   2. Did it go away ?

   3. Stress tends to exacerbate any kind of autoimmune issues. MS flares are notoriously triggered by stress. Stress can be physiological or emotional or physical. That much is scientific. But we can’t eliminate all stress, besides, even positive stresses can do that.

      And absolutely if we don’t deal with things in a healthy way, and are continually subjected to emotional stress, it’s going to weaken your entire immune system, which is highly influenced by your autonomic stress responses.

   4. The body gives warning signs beforehand though, but we choose to ignore it unfortunately until it’s too late.
      Listen to your body!

   5. Speedy recovery! 🙏 I had something similar with the brain, but also seizures and hyperacusis developed driven by stress. Taken 7 months to fully recover thanks to docs! But changing my whole life and most importantly illuminated those stress triggers that caused it. It’s a tough journey but do trust your docs and the bright happy future you have ahead 😊 Take care ❤

3. after a big heartbreak, i’ve been sick and tiresome with severe shoulder pain.
   just when i’ve been pondering how my mental health might be causing adverse effects on my physical health… this pops up😂
   guess my shoulder is screaming at me to let go of that avoidant bastard

   1. Broken heart can lead us to die. Hence with some old people couples, when one dies, the other one often dies soon after.

   2. Or maybe your shoulders are telling you that it was ok that you cared about him once upon a time, because you only wanted to be loved too.

      Just a thought.

   3. It’s probably shoulder pain you get from carrying all the load of the relationship 😂

   4. check out the free audiobook “Healing Back Pain” it cured me of chronic pain and now I help people get rid of theirs, good luck

   5. going through the same thing rn except its endless bouts of anxiety and insomnia:,)

4. This video should be translated and showed everywhere: at the bus stop, inside a mall, in cinemas before watching a movie. There’s so much unnecessary and unaware pain in the world just because no one has ever taught us the importance of doing inner work.

   1. Yes. But they dont alow us to translate it.

   2. I agree this should be paramount

   3. @@vega306 I tried, I translated dozens of their video on Croatian. They didn’t want to accept it, waiting for comunity to do so, which nobody wanted and then Youtube canceled those contributions of community and all translations got lost.

   4. What would doing the inner work look like? Actionable tips would be helpful. Thanks

   5. Absolutely yessss

5. I started therapy on monday for this very thing. Thank you ❤

   1. Good luck with your journey 😊

   2. Even if it lasts a long time, continue with therapy. If you don’t feel confident with a psychologist, you can try another. You’re intelligent, not everyone dares to go to therapy. 🪴

   3. Good luck ❤

   4. 🫶

   5. good luck!! i start mine thursday im looking forward to it a lot☺️

6. A few years back, Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan wrote a book called ‘It’ s all in your head’. Wise and insightful book about psychosomatic illnesses. Interesting she says that nowadays, food is blamed for our tiredness, bloating etc etc. Even the sanest and most balanced of us suffer with psychosomatic pain but we deny it so much. Fascinates me as to why? It’s so human for psychological pain to be felt as physical pain but we don’t want to believe it.

   1. I do believe food plays a big part. Yet I simultaneously also feel that our minds might even play just that little bit more.

      Maybe a 40/60 ratio of food/mind when it comes to what affects our health. But food also affects our mindset. And our mindset affects what food we eat so it’s all kind interlinked

   2. Because there’s no easy way to measure someone else’s mind.

   3. As more research is being done on functional cognitive disorders as well as gut health in relation to our well-being, this argument is moving towards more psychologists agreeing that psychological pain/distress is intrinsically linked with physical pain/issues. I suppose denial may stem from stigmas around mental health?

   4. @@tigerkahlua1609interestingly new research has suggested that the gut seems to have its own sort of consciousness, acting almost like a 2nd brain; affecting our decision making, hormones, and mood among other things

   5. Studies show that things like stress directly affect our ability to effectively digest food and prosess nutrients.
      https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22314561/

7. I’ve dealt with abuse and drama and loss all my life by burying it deep down and moving on because I had to be strong for everyone in my life. At 51 I started having full blown anxiety attacks (sweaty palms, people talking sounding like bees far off or in a tunnel, tunnel vision and the desire to just be alone, not around anyone) Once again true to my nature, I view this as a weakness and try to hide this by withdrawing from everyone except work. At 56 I am now having nightmares, insomniac, physical health issues, grinding my teeth in my sleep, even sleep paralysis. All due to never taken care of my issues and shoving them down. It isn’t a weakness dealing with your mental issues, I wish someone would have told me this and let me know true weakness is not allowing yourself to heal and get help in the beginning. If anyone is reading this and feels hurt, less than or dealing with loss, get help. You are worth it now and future you is depending on it. Blessings to all.

   1. Sadly I have all those same issues and ailments too, teeth grinding, can’t sleep, anxiety trembling, awful thoughts, OCD the list goes on, CPTSD, I have the issues

   2. @@andrewrees8749Please find resources in your area, mental health professional, a group, Clergy, even putting your feelings in writing. You are not alone and are worth happiness and sleep :), Get a night teeth guard to keep from chipping your teeth or biting the inside of your mouth during rough nights. Good Luck to you, I truly wish you all the best in this crazy journey we call life.

   3. Thanks

   4. 🫂🫂🫂

   5. Without a proper study this is just your opinion.
      Who knows if you had dealt with it from the beginning you would be in the same place today, maybe even worse, who knows ? Nobody knows, no proof

8. Medical student here- this is so so true. For anyone wondering about it’s scientific basis, I recommend you to read gut brain axis in depth.

   1. I’m a med student aswell, is there a certain book you would reccomend? Thanks!

   2. Thank you

   3. ​@@nightmode95gut & psychology syndrome by Natasha Campbell Mcbride

   4. Yeah but don’t tell ladies who’ve got endometriosis that it’s psychological! Why? Cos you can’t see a thing on MRIs!

   5. @@missophelie3781 endo actually has a LOT to do with gut health. Theres emerging research on this topic.
      I also have endo and working on gut health has improved my condition.

9. Always suppressed my emotions, now I’m dealing with lots of somatisations and depression. In life you will pay the price of everything, sooner or later.

   1. ​@@chillvibes71 the same situation with me too buddy except my dad died when I was 9

   2. @@chillvibes71 Therapy doesn’t just have to be talking about your feelings, although in my experience that can help more than you might expect. There’s therapies like EMDR that help encode traumatic memories like normal memories so they don’t cause so much disruption, there’s therapies that will look at things like your family systems and social supports. There’s a lot of options! It does take time to find a therapist that knows how to work with you but it is possible 🙂

   3. take care of it ! af

   4. @@chillvibes71felt this, can’t remember almost anything anymore but when I do I realize it’s better if I didn’t, there’s no switch we can push to become normal and handle the way life is now, and I don’t know how to take any of it. I hope we stay sane and get out ok

10. This is definitely crazy, but it’s true. When I’m anxious before a big exam, my stomach gets very upset. Last time, I was so anxious the week of, that the night of my sinuses swelled up and I became 99% congested. I couldn’t breath through my nose even a little, but there was no mucus in my nose. Then when I got my heartbroken, I knew I experienced that heartbreak in my mind but I physically 💔 felt it in my heart. My heart physically ached at the loss of the relationship.

    1. i have been anxious enough to start feeling sick. it was confusing at first but slowly I’ve been able to tell the difference between sick sick and anxiety sick

    2. @@ruscell0000 stress also lowers the immune system, so there’s that

    3. I feel the exact same way! I cannot breathe through my nose when im anxious. And my entire body will be in pain even though my doctor keeps telling me nothing is wrong.

    4. I’m so glad im not the only one who feels that heart ache too

    5. I felt that ache too. When my best friend stopped talking to me for 2 years.

11. This comment section is so healing. I’ve been working on the hurt from a lost friendship a decade ago in therapy. People have always questioned why I care and can’t just flip a switch and move on. However, I’ve always felt that a lot of people are dealing with things that they avoid and don’t want to talk about and that it shows up in their lives in many other ways.

    1. I’ve got free when I started to not be embarrassed about feelings.
       Let’s feel, and feel it fully with our whole heart.
       Let’s love without be afraid of being hurt.

    2. damn this is kinda what i needed. im trying to move on from a situationship that happened some time ago and i always asked myself why do i process it for so long when most people stop caring after a week or a month. from observing my friends and other ppl i came to the conclusion that they don’t- it just becomes embarrassing to show that you’re still processing it but it comes back in different ways

    3. I get stuck on relationships that don’t work out because I want to understand why it didn’t, and although sometimes that can bring some good clarity, sometimes it drives you crazy. It is so disheartening that my brain can comprehend the path to peace but not locate it. I try to remind myself that it’s just one modest step at a time, not the entire journey today. Peace and love to you! 😊❤

    4. @agnesg  woah, this is exactly how I felt. I still remember when I had the realization that my logic and emotion didn’t matter, that my brain was still ruminating and hurting over that broken relationship and I couldn’t simply move on. 💔

    5. How do you find good therapists? I’m poor so I feel like I’ve wasted money on therapy because they seem to only take money and not help me

12. I feel so unsafe. I have to stay on alert on the time. I am tired. I am getting bitter, pessimistic, unlively, and pretentious all the same time. Tired of popping in painkillers every single day. I wish I could leave everything and go to the mountains or something.

    1. Talk to someone. A younger neglected, or hurt current part of you must be honored. I really hope you are able to find free resources or find a suitable therapist.

    2. @@tobyokoi0909 yes I can talk to a friend may be. Can’t afford therapy. I earn bare minimum to survive. I also study alongside in hope of a better future. Thank you for taking time out to reply. I wish a good life for you my friend.

    3. Please stay hopefull that there are still good people out there! If that is the reason you are getting bitter. Hope helps me out with that. Also just looking specifically for kindness around me. Also, about your pain, have you heard of ‘the medical medium’? This book has helped me out with some health issues, so because of that I recommend it to everyone. Goodluck stranger!

    4. Go to the mountains, for real! You might have to go to the doctor first, but go to the mountains ❤❤❤

    5. Ayo I am having a similar experience in life

13. It’s not lack of courage–many of us don’t know how to access our feelings because it was never safe to, so we have to learn

    1. Very true. And even after learning, it can still be very difficult for those who haven’t been allowed to express or process their feelings in the past.

    2. @@fe3613 exactly – we learn to repress as an instinct for survival, which is what the narrator is telling is, albeit in a dull flat way

    3. Access our emotions ?? What the hell does this mean ?

    4. Most people don’t have time, by the time life finishes making it’s constant demands and we finally find ourself. We have to crash course it like uni when we’re young. Or we have to wait until we’re retired.

    5. So true Colette Lee 😢

14. I grew up in a toxic familiy system. Emotions were never save or really allowed to have, especially not negative ones.
    I am so out of touch with them.
    I’m struggling with severe debilitating mental health issues and I seriously doubt that I will ever be able to overcame all these scars.
    It is so crucial to teach children how to deal with their emotions in a healthy way.
    Great video.

    1. I’m rooting for you, dear! You’re much stronger than you think, I’m sure of it.

    2. @@neann6 Thanks, that’s nice of you to say

    3. @@mangantasy289 Not just saying it, I believe it wholeheartedly. You can do it 💕

    4. @@neann6 We’ll see. I don’t have much hope left after so many years and so little perspective. Maybe when I can overcome my severe depression. There’s so many issues I have to work on.

    5. @@mangantasy289 I can’t imagine all you’re going through, but let’s take it one day at a time💕

15. Hope the person who needs this video finds it.

    1. I think that’d be everyone

    2. good news, I did.

    3. Thank you i did

    4. I certainly did.

    5. Already had to have my colon removed due to severe chronic disease, I’m guessing brought on by a constant state of anxiety. I was 24 years old.

16. “Even if you try to bottle it all up… it all comes out somehow.”
    -Basil (omori 2020)🌻

    1. @@burndandelions317 cmon man thats rookie numbers, im on day 9961135380973920573095235532523 of not taking a dump get on my level

    2. 🍉x8 so it forms a full watermelon

    3. @@enderguardian7443 you are either an omori fan because I get the watermelon reference or the watermelon coincidentally fits

    4. There isn’t any way out of this, is there?

    5. @@Spartan_S-007 everything is going to be okay

17. “Our hearts want a chance to say sorry.” I felt this! ❤💔

    1. Me too, and after 4+ years of no contact I’m afraid to send a message. What stops you from saying sorry if I may ask

    2. @@SheyMirza nothing is stopping me really. I am in contact with her now. And I think we have this unspoken thing between us that we both had a loot to grow, we didn’t have harmful intentions for the other at the core at all, so a sorry right now sounds like maybe a little unneeded. But if I ever bumped into her in person, I’ll say my sorries then. 🙂

18. My ex wife made me physically ill with digestive issues. Once divorced, all symptoms were gone

    1. Glad you feel better. Here’s hoping you find some good people to support you.

    2. At the age of 16, I started growing random white hair. My mom plucked one hair and it was alternating between black and white. It ranged in centimeters. Almost like it was following patterns of stressful and good periods in my life.

       I’ve noticed strands of my hair turning white during extreme stress. And when I feel better, it can fully revert back. That was when I realized the way my body worked together with my mind

    3. I’ve been in the same boat for twenty five years on my second marriage,the first one too.
       So hey I went to school in NM with a guy that has your same name.

    4. you just made me laugh so hard, thank you!

19. This was a lifesaving video, one I needed to hear. My 17yo son actually shared it with me. As a parent, wife and daughter I have much to learn. Grateful for my son that is teaching me and grateful to you for your content.

20. that’s why meditating is life changing. i love this video. so so so true. i thought i had stomach problems for years, it hurt every single morning. it wasn’t until i started going to therapy and meditating that it stopped and then i realized it had always been my anxiety, not any problems with food.

    1. i’ve had “morning sickness” for the past couple years as well. wake up early in pain, and it feels like there’s a knot in my stomach. on the worst days it feels like a stomach ulcer, and it’s almost impossible for me to get up. I’ve always resented therapists, so maybe I’ll try meditation instead

    2. wait this might be the cure to my ibs

    3. Me sorprendió verte aqui, pero al mismo tiempo no tanto para ser honesta.
       A veces estando tan clavado en el entretenimiento, uno podria llegar a olvidar o dejar de lado que la persona detrás de la pantalla también es un ser humano.
       Sé que sufres de problemas de ansiedad también, como muchas de las personas que estamos aquí.
       Suelo ir directamente a los comentarios cuando rondo por videos así. Sobre ansiedad, sobre depresión… Quizá buscando consuelo, quizá buscando una voz que represente las cosas que jamás puedo decir. Y solo quiero decir que fue lindo bajar a la sección de comentarios y sentir que vez a una cara familiar. Tu y yo, que no nos conocemos en realidad. Que en otras circunstancias solo somos Creador/consumidora, aquí somos lo mismo.
       Solo personas que luchan contra todo esto.

    4. Wow that resonates. My gastroenterologist actually told me that it might be anxiety, not stomach problems, and hell it is true!

       Can’t afford neither therapy or meditation sadly, so I have to live with it for a while

    5. @@mauersegler Can’t you meditate by yourself ? Maybe some videos on youtube can guide you, or using apps on your phone? Meditating is a solo activity, usually, so maybe you can start that way!

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