Re: Digest Number 7661 CFS and sexual abuse

[Guest guest]

Hi Jody, The information is there now. Very interesting. Good number of

articles.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en & q=CFS+and+sexual+abuse & um=1 & ie=UTF-8 & sa=X & oi=n\

ews_result & resnum=1 & ct=title

Sincerely, Edith

[Moderator: remember that the review on these articles concluded that they were

all very badly designed and conclusions were questionable]

[Guest guest]

Edith, Thanks so much for the info. And moderator, thanks so much for reminding

me to take it with a grain of salt!

These studies are all so confusing, and they skew the stats to get what they

want if they can.

But I do think childhood abuse can probably have some effect on lots of stuff

later in life, emotional and physical. Can it hardwire your brain to make you

susceptible to CFS later in life? How the heck would anybody know that????

Sincerely, Jody

[Guest guest]

" Jody " <azjd11@...> wrote:

> But I do think childhood abuse can probably have some

> effect on lots of stuff later in life, emotional and physical.

> Can it hardwire your brain to make you susceptible to CFS

> later in life? How the heck would anybody know that????

>

> Sincerely, Jody

Prolonged stress/cortisol affects the hypothalamus/HPA axis.

Carol W.

[Guest guest]

I was re-evaluated by Social Security yesterday. I bet you can guess

the type of doctor I had to go to. A Psychiatrist of course! I told

him that I had also (in addition to CFS and Fibro.) been diagnosed in

the past with depression, PTSD and Somatization Disorder. He said

that Somatization Disorder is caused by trauma/abuse in earlier life

and it causes physical symptoms, which go on to actually make you

sick. He suggested I get into therapy and that getting things out

would possibly help my symptoms. He said that the symptoms are caused

by not getting the feelings/emotions out. I'm sure at least part of my

symptoms are caused by things in my childhood. I was always sick as a

child too. I'm going to try the therapy (again) and see if it will

help at all. I'm really tired of being housebound and feeling sick

and tired all the time. I'm at the point that I'll try anything.

Sue

[Guest guest]

In my case CFS was triggered by childhood Trauma

Therapy has helped but I found that CFS has a life of it's own

and I have to treat it as well

S

" The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own

reason for existing. "

Albert Einstein

[Guest guest]

Here another opinion, by Pamela Weintraub:

http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/emerging-diseases/200901/chronic-

fatigue-syndrome-child-abuse-disordered-patients-or-disordered

This appears to be just another study that involves everyone who feels

tired. but suffers mostly from psychological issues.