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How Unrelieved Stress Hurts Your Body: Increase in Drug Consumption
Friday, September 19, 2008
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Drugs (prescription or illegal) are taken for the same reason as alcohol. They are an attempt to decrease anxiety and stress. Without finding and eliminating the cause of the stress, escaping with drugs doesn’t work. The problems that are causing the stress are still there. However, taking drugs usually just adds another set of problems, more stress and a decreased ability to solve them.
I want to include smoking here. What happens when people try to quit smoking?
They usually gain weight. Why? Because they have removed the way they controlled their stress, so they have to replace it with something else.
Unless you find and eliminate the stress that triggered the addiction in the first place, the person will either not be able to quit or will just switch to a different addiction.
My mother died of lung cancer at the young age of 68. She started smoking when she was 17. At the age of 41, she was first diagnosed with lung cancer and had a third of her lung removed. She started smoking again in the hospital after the surgery. Her lung cancer came back at the age of 67 and in the last days of her life, she refused to go to a hospice unless they would allow her to smoke there.
She tried quitting a couple of times but couldn’t do it. Smoking was the way she tried to control her stress but it didn’t work. For most of my mother’s life, she also had exzema – a very itchy blotchy rash on her skin. It would flare up and get worse whenever my mother experienced additional stress.
August 25th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Skin like any other body part reacts to stress negatively. The consequences on prolonged stress on skin can lead to permanent marks and aging of the skin. Fortunately, there are ways and means to understand this mind and beauty connection and use it for your advantage to keep your skin healthy and beautiful.
September 26th, 2009 at 2:43 am
I agree with you Ricky. I know my mother went to so many doctors and tried so many different creams and treatments for her exzema. Most did nothing, a few worked for a while but none eliminated the problem. I believe the reason is that they were trying to cure the symptoms – not address the real problem.
I believe that is true for most of Western medicine. We treat the body as a bag of body parts and chemicals, so the treatments usually involve drugs or surgery. Many if not most of the time, I believe them to be ineffective, if not actually more harmful.
If we are able to access the true cause of the body’s dis-ease, and eliminate it, then our body will heal itself. If we cut our finger, we don’t tell it to heal. It will heal automatically – unless something is blocking it, like unresolved emotional issues (also called Stress). Learn more!