For this topic, I had to make a personal confession; I suffered years with Fibromyalgia and stress related conditions. The correlation between sickness and stress is staggering. According to Hart & Webber (2009) the over arousal of the adrenal system and the elevation of adrenaline causes stress. Additionally, as one who experiences my body in fight or flight, when the adrenal level spike one just feel out of sorts until they are normal. One of the effects, of long term stress is the body being in fight or flight consistently. I experience false alarms of threat which spike my adrenal and cortisol levels. CMHC Stress Management (n. d) explains, “Even though the fight or flight response is automatic, it isn't always accurate. In fact, most of
