Posts tagged chemical sensitivities

Sensory Overload

Mid-morning weekend drives have become a new ritual for my teenage son and me lately. He's had his driver's permit for a few weeks, and since Florida doesn't require a physical driving component to their training program, he feels pretty timid on the road. My son prefers to drive with me over his other options.

Carrie EckertSeptember 17, 2019fight or flight, sympathetic nervous system, autonomic nervous system, limbic system, mystery illness, MCS, environmental illness, chemical sensitivities, hypervigilence, hypervigilanceComment

They do too. Really.

How many of you have felt isolated and even rejected in the midst of your dis-ease?

What happens when you’ve sung that hidden illness tune so many times that your song is no longer heard?

Maybe it started with the doctors who couldn’t see anything wrong with you in their impersonal work-ups.

Carrie EckertSeptember 21, 2017autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, environmental illness, mcs, chemical sensitivities, EBV, Lyme, mystery illness, forgiveness, compassionComment

Avocado to Zen