Low immunity after periods of high stress and hypervigilance

[Digz]

I know what you mean @HealingMama . Stress creates a lot of ongoing illnesses, autoimmune or otherwise. I like to joke that while other people collect academic initials to go at the end of their name, I collect illness initials! lol Digz Harrison, PTSD, DID, IBS, ENDO.... it's very annoying when I collect illnesses that don't have an acronym! ? I'm going to have to start creating my own acronyms so I can add them to my illness credentials! ??

 

[Deanna]

Just an aside this all gets a little more interesting in the area of autoimmune conditions where the immune system actually attacks the person from the inside. Stress tends to trigger this so there is a double whammy of the stress using up resources for threat response, then the immune system coming online to repair things and to attack the invader which in this case is your own body.

Keeping stress levels down is even more important with autoimmunity, and there is a high incidence of people who have trauma history who also struggle with autoimmune conditions. The more you know...

Actually, stress related disorders also increase the risk for autoimmunity: Research

My brother has an auto-immune disease and is PTSD like me.