Unmasking the “and this…and then there’s this…and this…” long symptom list of chronic conditions

If you’re in one of your health troughs, your very worse of days, weeks or months, the times when you’re a fortune hunter out there on all the forums and websites, ever hoping for a breakthrough piece of insight, remember this too will pass and that it’s not always going to be this intense, though it sometimes feels like it is. And importantly, you’re not all alone. There are others like you, with their two hands overspilling with overlapping and often utterly bewildering symptoms that get precious little ear from medical professionals. We may feel isolated in our struggle but there are a lot of us out here.

That “thing” that happened long ago

The natural response of the mind is often to shut-down vague recollections of some past event that you don't remember fondly but there lies the problem...we shut it down consciously, yet the body continues to harbour the irritation or pain, at the subconscious level, which then has no choice but to manifest as imbalance or some other symptom, that feeling of perpetuation in the body (on and on and on in perpetuity = "chronic") and, of course, where one "off-kilter" energy tends to linger, other sticky energies will attract, leading to escalation (the "snowball" effect).