antiqua
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I figure I should start a log. I'm an avid diarist irl so if I'm gonna write it anyway, may as well put it up where others can read and maybe find a glimmer of meaning. For this first entry, I'll give a general outline of who I am and how I got to Peat.
I'm 22 years old now, but even as a little girl I always had health issues, unlike my older sister. I was asthmatic, terrible allergies, severe anxiety, picky eating (all I would really eat was cheerios and pasta). I think the original trigger of most of this was chronic stress due to an absent alcoholic dad and being in a generally unstable environment. My sister coped by externalizing her stress, lashing out at others. I coped by internalizing my stress and learning to please others. No wonder I got so sick later in life. Stress always catches up with you.
When I was 13 I developed acne, which mortified me. At 14, just months after my first period, I was put on the pill to clear my skin up. This is one of my biggest regrets, and sources of anger towards the medical system at large. Doctors are so blind to how the human body actually works that they thought it was appropriate to totally shut down a vital organ system as a strategy to clear acne. I wasn't even in high school yet.
Being medicated on the pill throughout my teens spawned a whole new set of problems for me. After stopping at 21, I developed what's known as post-pill syndrome or post-pill pcos. This past year I have spent way too much energy trying to figure out what's wrong with me and how this happened. 6 months of learning from Dr. Peat's work finally gave me my answer - stress finally caught up with me. Emotional stress from my childhood and adolescence, physical stress from a nutritionally lacking diet, hormonal stress from having my hormones supressed for 7 years. In the end, stress is stress and everyone on the forum has probably had tenfold the amount of stress than anyone should have in a lifetime.
Basically my goal is to restore my health and reach a state of balance, physically and emotionally. I don't anticipate ever full-on "peating" because it's incredibly expensive, and because I honestly prefer starch to sugar any day of the week. But by applying principles that I've learned from Ray's work, I have begun to shift things in the right direction. '
Stay tuned in the future for some generous oversharing as I deep dive into more specific topics!
I'm 22 years old now, but even as a little girl I always had health issues, unlike my older sister. I was asthmatic, terrible allergies, severe anxiety, picky eating (all I would really eat was cheerios and pasta). I think the original trigger of most of this was chronic stress due to an absent alcoholic dad and being in a generally unstable environment. My sister coped by externalizing her stress, lashing out at others. I coped by internalizing my stress and learning to please others. No wonder I got so sick later in life. Stress always catches up with you.
When I was 13 I developed acne, which mortified me. At 14, just months after my first period, I was put on the pill to clear my skin up. This is one of my biggest regrets, and sources of anger towards the medical system at large. Doctors are so blind to how the human body actually works that they thought it was appropriate to totally shut down a vital organ system as a strategy to clear acne. I wasn't even in high school yet.
Being medicated on the pill throughout my teens spawned a whole new set of problems for me. After stopping at 21, I developed what's known as post-pill syndrome or post-pill pcos. This past year I have spent way too much energy trying to figure out what's wrong with me and how this happened. 6 months of learning from Dr. Peat's work finally gave me my answer - stress finally caught up with me. Emotional stress from my childhood and adolescence, physical stress from a nutritionally lacking diet, hormonal stress from having my hormones supressed for 7 years. In the end, stress is stress and everyone on the forum has probably had tenfold the amount of stress than anyone should have in a lifetime.
Basically my goal is to restore my health and reach a state of balance, physically and emotionally. I don't anticipate ever full-on "peating" because it's incredibly expensive, and because I honestly prefer starch to sugar any day of the week. But by applying principles that I've learned from Ray's work, I have begun to shift things in the right direction. '
Stay tuned in the future for some generous oversharing as I deep dive into more specific topics!