Re: [Spotlight_ldn] STRESS AND MS ( OR OTHER ILLNESSES)

July 30, 2003

I remember a sign:

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Sometimes it's a snowball effect. Something happens that you find stressful,

it triggers off an MS attack. The MS attack worries you, causes even more

stress, and more stress makes the MS attack worse.

If you have MS and are at a peaceful level, if something happens, the MS

doesn't cause your reaction to it (or does it?), but the stress that you find

yourself in can cause the MS to flare up. They feed each other.

Some stress can be avoided, the ones within your control. But the stress of a

water heater bursting and flooding you out, or the death of a relative, or

other type of loss, the best we can do is deal with it as it comes up. Hard to

control our emotional reaction to some events.

----- Original Message -----

From: " Sally " <salpal@...>

<Spotlight_ldn >

Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 20:59

Subject: [spotlight_ldn] STRESS AND MS ( OR OTHER ILLNESSES)

> Hi All,

> I have always thought that STRESS was, maybe not the cause, but the

> effect of my MS. Please read an exerpt from an article in a medical

> journal, that I read......it justifies my feelings. ~Sally

>

> It is important to understand that stress always corresponds to a

> relation between the environment and the individual. It means that

> an aggression and a response have occurred, and that a interaction

> took place, as it has been proposed by the Canadian physician Hans

> Selye, the creator of the modern concept of stress. According to

> him, the so-called physiological stress is a normal adaptation

> syndrome, or a fight-or-flight situation (when faced with a enemy,

> animals either try to escape, or remain to fight). However, when the

> response is pathological, such as in a ill-adapted individual, or in

> a situation where the stress stimulus persists for a long time, then

> an organic mal-function takes place, which may lead to transitory

> disturbances or to severe manifestations of disease. At least,

> excessive stress may worsen pre-existent diseases or may provoke

> diseases in persons who are genetically predisposed to them. A

> medical case ensues.

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