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STRESS ARTICLE- THE CONNECTION BETWEEN STRESS AND HEALTH
By Eric Robins, MD
I have an interesting case report. About 6 months ago I saw a woman in my urology clinic for incontinence. Before I entered the exam room I was reviewing her outpatient chart and noticed that she was on anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medication. In my mind, emotional issues often affect physical symptoms and diseases, which is why I try to use EFT as often as I can in the clinical setting. The fact that it can be used so quickly is a big plus because I don't have a lot of time to waste. I have some presuppositions that I use with regards to the effect of emotions on health:
1) stress and negative emotions aren't in the head, they are stored in our bodies
2) people will unconsciously tense down on smooth and skeletal muscles to hold painful issues and traumas down in the body and prevent them from coming up to conscious awareness
3) where stress and negative emotions are stored in our bodies, they block the flow of the body's healing energy
With these thoughts in mind, I entered the exam room. A bladder ultrasound revealed that she was only emptying half of her urine volume after she voided (i.e. she was retaining urine). In females, it is rare to find an anatomic blockage responsible for this urine retention. More commonly we find that these women are storing stress in their pelvic floor and sphincter muscles, so that when they urinate the muscles aren't relaxed and the bladder doesn't empty. Also, in this woman's case, some of her depression medications were serving to relax the bladder and were likely contributing to the problem.
I told her that often times stress can contribute to physical symptoms. When I say this to patients, I am real careful that the person doesn't think I am telling them that the problem is "all in their head." I usually tell them the following metaphor. I'll say, "if someone has an ulcer, they have a real physical hole in their stomach, isn't that right?; but if you ask the question, 'gee, I wonder why they developed an ulcer in the first place', the answer might be, 'Well, they were producing too much stomach acid, and it burnt a hole in the stomach.' But, if you ask the question, 'I wonder why they were making too much stomach acid, the answer might be that they had too much stress and anxiety." I want them to be clear that emotional issues physicalize in the body.
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