Mind and Body Connection
You can feel the effects in every part of your body if you let it go on long enough: I feel it in my jaw, as I always had to physically silence myself by clenching it, even as a child- now shown in the development of TMJ. I feel it when I feel anxious and my throat and chest burn, and my hand shakes as though even my body knows I cannot handle it. I feel it when I regress back into the me who didn’t want to eat or just wanted to live in her dream world where everything was safe. I notice it when I try something new and my mouth becomes drier than the Sahara desert and I feel as though I can not speak. I see it in the way my body feels much older than I truly am- as though it has gone through hundreds of years of living when yet it only has been going for 21 years. I know it when my friends can keep going for days on end but I get tired and overwhelmed after just a few hours of work. Though we are the same age and should reasonably be equally energized, we are not...