UC and Anxiety

[alfreddy7]

Found this picture on my Ulcerative Colitis support group.

I can see my UC being a contributor to my Anxiety

[Rafiki11]

That makes a lot of sense. Sometimes I wonder which came first?

🐓 🥚 🐓 🥚

[alfreddy7 in reply to Rafiki11]

Hi Rafiki11,

My UC came first. Been having it for I would say 7 years now.

Been handling it good.

But now the anxiety is another hurtle.

I’ll live though

How you doing Rafiki11 I know I don’t post as much anymore. But I hope you are doing good.

[Rafiki11 in reply to alfreddy7]

I’m saying sometimes emotional pain manifests itself physically as an auto immune disorder. The emotional pain can also be the root cause of anxiety.

I’m not saying that’s true in your case. There’s a genetic and/or environmental component to many disorders as well.

I like your positive attitude! It makes a world of difference!

[Rafiki11 in reply to alfreddy7]

I appreciate you asking about how I’m doing. I’ve had some ups and downs lately with symptoms. Anxiety is pretty regulated right now but I often feel physically “not right” or mentally zoned out. I’ve got a doctor appointment on Monday.

***possible trigger***

Also, I’m perseverating over something dumb on Facebook. My husband promoted in his law enforcement job. As we’re watching the Facebook live feed, someone made a hateful comment about them being trained to be racially motivated murderers.

She didn’t say it in those exact words so Facebook let her hate speech stand. My husband says no one cares about law enforcement people except for their parents and kids, etc. On days like today, I can’t argue with his opinion.

I’m not so hurt or shocked by the hate speech. I know people want my husband and our whole family dead because he’s law enforcement. I’m hurt because a group of Facebook employees decided there is nothing wrong with (essentially) calling all cops racist murderers.

These hateful comments lead to dead police officers. Just the other day a police officer was murdered from ambush as he arrived at his home from work. My husband covers his uniform when he drives home so no one follows him home.

[alfreddy7 in reply to Rafiki11]

I’ve also felt zoned out a lot and alot of mental fog. Part of anxiety I guess.

You know. Now that I suffer from anxiety and depression. I always think about those people on how they live their lives just hating on other people. They dedicate themselves to spew hate upon other people.

When I see something online about politics I scroll right pass it. It is not good for my mental health. I’m too old and too ill to spend the rest of my life arguing about left wing - Right wing. Cops, politics.

Sadly this is what this country has become.

My life also revolves around the military and police, because of family and friends.

They know I’m always there for them though,

It’s just hard nowadays to stay from an argument or altercation with people that disagree with you.

How I deal with it I just have to ignore it. Ignore what they say. Block it or report it and move on with my life. Not sure if that’s the right thing to do but I think it’s best for me.

I’m really sorry you experienced this Rafiki11 ❤️

Just hang in there. I know the whole world is in a rough patch right now but there is better times ahead I can guarantee you that. We just have to be strong.

[Rafiki11 in reply to alfreddy7]

Thank you for listening. On most days I do just scroll past. I don’t argue with people. It just leads to further polarization. I just report, block, and move on.

It just really hurts when Silence Is Violence only applies sometimes according to the people in charge of what we are allowed to view. I don’t like any type of hate speech. There is no permissible hate speech. We have no room for harmful stereotypes of any kind.

[Hidden]

I feel for you. I have crohns disease.

[alfreddy7 in reply to Hidden]

Awww so sorry.

I hope you’re are in remission.

I know our diet has to be super strict.