In order to understand fibromyalgia/ chronic fatigue and PTSD

consequences you need to read this...

From Henry Wright’s book: A More Excellent Way

GAS – General Adaptation Syndrome

If a stress is extreme or unusual, the normal ways of keeping the body in balance may not be sufficient.  In this case, the stress triggers a wide-ranging set of bodily changes called General Adaptation Syndrome ( GAS).  Unlike the homeostatic mechanism, General Adaptation Syndrome ( GAS) does not maintain a constant internal environment.  In fact, it does just the opposite. For instance, blood pressure and blood sugar levels are raised above normal.

The purpose of these changes in the internal environment is to gear up the body to meet emergencies, known as stressors.  The hypothalamus can be called the body’s watchdog.  It has sensors that detect changes in the chemistry, temperature and pressure of the blood. It is informed of emotions through tracks that connect it with the emotional centers of the cerebral cortex of the brain.

When the hypothalamus senses stress, it initiates a change of reactions that produce General Adaptation Syndrome  (GAS).  The stressors produce the syndrome. A stressor may be almost any disturbance, including strong emotional reactions. When a stressor appears, it stimulates the hypothalamus to stimulate the syndrome through two pathways. The first pathway is stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and the ADRENAL medulla. This stimulation produces an immediate set of responses called the alarm reaction. The second pathway, called the resistance reaction, involves the anterior pituitary gland and adrenal cortex.  The resistance reaction is slower to start, but its effects last longer.

The first part of an ANXIETY DISORDER is called the alarm reaction.  The alarm reaction is a fight or flight response, and is the body’s initial reaction to a stressor.  It is actually a complex reaction initiated by hypothalamic stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla. The responses of the visceral effectors are immediate and short lived.  They are designed to counteract the danger by mobilizing the body’s resources for immediate physical activity.  In essence, the alarm reaction brings tremendous amounts of glucose and oxygen to the organs that are most active in warding off danger. These are the BRAIN, which must become highly alert; the SKELETAL MUSCLES, which may have to ward off an attacker; and the HEART, which must work furiously to pump enough materials to the brain and to the muscles.  Hyperglycemia is associated with sympathetic activity.  It is produced by epinephrine and norepinephrine from the adrenal medulla, fat mobilization, glucose sparing, and protein mobilization by the glucocorticoids.           

The heart rate and strength of cardiac muscle contraction are increased. Blood vessels supplying the skin and the viscera, except the heart and lungs, undergo constriction.  The spleen contracts and discharges stored up blood. The liver transforms large amounts of stored glycogen into glucose.  Sweat production increases. The rate of breathing increases; the production of saliva, stomach enzymes and intestinal enzymes decrease.  This reaction takes place since digestive activity is not essential for counteracting the stress.  This is what produces malabsorption.  Sympathetic impulses to the adrenal medulla increase its secretion of epinephrine and norepinephrine. These hormones supplement and prolong many sympathetic nervous system realities.

A fight or flight stress creates the second stage – the resistance stage.  The third stage is exhaustion.  This can be progressive over years. It can come quickly, or it can come slowly.  What happens is this: when you face the stressor, whether known or unknown, the first thing that gets stimulated is the hypothalamus gland. Nervous impulses are generated, the sympathetic centers in the spinal cord are activated, the production of epinephrine and norepinephrine occur and then begins the stress response of an increased heart rate, constriction of blood vessels, contraction of spleen and on it goes.

MCS/ EI Reaction Illustrated

Let’s say we are up against our stressor, we have touched the ‘forbidden food’.  We’re around the ‘forbidden’ smell, someone says the “bug man” is here and we are immediately programmed to thing that he is the enemy.  Instantly, there is a hormone generated by the hypothalamus that goes into the bloodstream.  It docks at a receptor cell of the muscles of the heart.  The heart and respiratory rates start to increase, rapidity of breathing begins, and it can go from slow all the way to panic.  I can go so far that you reach a state of anaphylaxis, which is very dangerous because you can die from it.  It can go to the extreme of catatonic realities.  I have seen this happen in people’s lives.  We’ve been very successful in breaking catatonic episodes , anaphylaxis and panic in every range of occurrence.

In an EI reaction as we are exposed to the stressor, respiratory rate increases, and rapidity of breathing produces something called hyperventilation.  In hyperventilation, two things are happening; you have either a reduction of oxygen in the upper level of the brain, or you have an increase of carbon dioxide levels.  Hyperventilation interferes with getting the proper fuel to your brain cells; that’s why, in the case of advanced EI reaction, individuals get fuzziness of thinking.  They get “brain fog”; then they get diagnosed with organic brain syndrome. They have fuzzy thinking, and as they lose their concentration and brain fog develops, their FEAR intensifies.  These people feel like they are literally losing their minds. They can’t figure out what is happening; fear comes, it increases, more fears develop, more hormones are released, more fears, more hyperventilation, and they can reach the extreme of catatonic reality or anaphylaxis.  It can go from calm to panic, just like that, with a massive rush of hormones.  Once the stressors and their impact have passed, the fear subsides, the body returns to normal and the EI reaction is over.

An EI reaction does not last forever; however, what does last “forever” is the next stage of this disease – the resistance stage.

If a “normal person” is crossing the street in traffic and somebody blows their car’s horn, the person would jump.  If I were to lay my hand on a hot stove, the alarm stage would come, fight or flight would kick in, and I would quickly move myself out of the way.  I would return back to normal, the parts necessary for homeostasis would kick back in, the parts for fight or flight would go away, my respiratory rate would come back to normal, my breathing would return to normal, and I would resume a normal life style.

In people with an anxiety disorder such as MCS/EI, they never leave “fight or flight”.  They move into the second level of this disease, the resistance stage.  In the resistance stage, even though fight or flight is not so magnified.

Immunosuppression or Deficiency

From Henry Wright’s book: A More Excellent Way

We just went over what excessive secretion of cortisol produces and what the catacholamines do, and how they destroy the immune system and the resulting diseases.

The autoimmune diseases are not the result of immunosuppression.

The autoimmune diseases are not the result of a lack of white corpuscles. The autoimmune diseases re when the white corpuscles attack living flesh and destroy it.  Lupus, Crohn’s, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and MS are examples, and on it goes.

The body attacks the body because the person is attacking themselves spiritually in self-rejection and self-hatred and self-bitterness.  There is a spiritual dynamic that comes , in which the white corpuscles are invisibly redirected to attack living tissue while ignoring the true enemy which is bacteria and viruses.  As the person continues to attack themselves spiritually, the body finally agrees in which the white corpuscles start attacking the body. That is a high price to pay for not loving yourself.

Autoimmune Diseases

Even though the medical community now associates autoimmune diseases ( including lupus, Crohn’s , diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis) with fear, anxiety and stress, I have come to the conclusion that most autoimmune diseases are primarily the result of an unloving spirit producing feelings of not being loved, not being accepted, self-rejection, self-hatred, self-bitterness coupled with guilt.  In fact it could be said that autoimmune diseases are primarily a self-hatred disease with a fear, anxiety and stress rider attached to them.