poll, was Re: Perception by others that sensitivity is *your* fault, rather than just biochemistry?

[Guest guest]

> Having been in a group in which people discussed any childhood abuse

> freely I came away horrified by the extent of it. So yeah, lots of

> people with AF and hypo may have been abused, but I doubt if the

> percentage is higher than in the general population.

Hmm. I don't think I agree. Consider what abuse does to you: you live

in terror, day in day out, when your stress is through the roof yet

neither fight nor flight is possible. You either curl up and die, or

you somehow keep your head down and try to survive.

That's going to do for your adrenals. Would I, for instance, be in

such a bad stage of adrenal fatigue if I hadn't had so many years of

terror? Doubt it.

Rosie/5