For sure, John!

Relaxation techniques and meditation can help a lot during Anxiety Attacks. ;.`

Thanks for your comments! Your book may indeed help others who define themselves as a HSP. I have not found any herbs to be helpful (and have taken many over the years!) but do take vitamins regularly. Otherwise, I completely agree with you regarding a HSP. In my view, only HSPs have fibromyalgia and although you don’t write about that relationship here I hope that in your practice you will consider this duality! Regards, Barbara

This excerpt is from the book “The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide” by Ted Zeff, Ph.D.

“Since most medical doctors tend to be non-HSP (highly sensitive person), while many holistic health care practitioners are HSP, you may feel more comfortable working with an HSP health provider. It’s important for you to let your doctor know that you are a highly sensitive person. Tell your doctor that since you tend to feel things more deeply, your body could react to medication and pain more intensely than most people. This is important information for your doctor to know about you. I feel that it’s important to utilize the excellent advances in modern Western medicine such as diagnostic testing, combined with the ancient healing herbs from indigenous cultures with the production of modern supplements and vitamins.”

In my research of highly sensitive people, I found that most HSPs responded that they had trouble falling or staying asleep frequently, stress at work has affected their emotional and physical health, and reported having a difficult childhood. Having a sensitive nervous system needs to be properly managed to avoid an increase in emotional and physical challenges.

This makes sense to me, Jason. Thanks for the comments… a relationship between nature/nurture! Regards, Barbara

A tie between anxiety and some immune disorders may have been found with research into the womb environment of pregnant women. In a study I recently read, researchers found that when women are stressed during critical stages of pregnancy, the changes in the chemistry of the womb can actually alter the programming of their unborn child’s nervous and immune systems making the child’s system more sensitive than normal and often imparting an immunological disorder.

Dear Abot: I know exactly how you feel. This is a very bad day for me today (this whole month/year in fact) with pains in my hands, arms and knees. While I know it is an overloaded nervous sytem, I am too overwhlemed not to feel anxious. As long as I have lived with fibromyalgia (most of my lifetime) I still feel anxious when a new symptom appears. I wonder “what now?”. It seems like every new place the pain attacks is arbitrary.The most difficult thing is wondering if it is fibromyalgia or something else. Even going to the Dr makes me anxious. You are right too…we all appear healthy while chronic pain is so exhausting. Thank you for responding to my blog. Your comments are appreciated.
Barbara

i am sure there are neurological constructs that affect us. however anyone who lives with a chronic illness, and one that is constantly changing it’s course, would feel anxious. not to be able to make an appointment and know whether you can carry it out, or start a project and then leave it unfinished, can cause an anxiety attack. one day the knees don’t work and another it’s the feet, or the arms, or the migraines. what’s astonishing is that we live this way at all, for years at a time, suffering alone and appearing healthy. to be so misunderstood by friends and family, even drs. who think it’s all in “our heads”, is diminishing and exhausting. wish you could know how we feel.

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