Background problems of ill health causing stress: arthritis

BACKGROUND PROBLEMS OF ILL HEALTH CAUSING STRESS: ARTHRITIS

Any degree of ill health makes us more vulnerable to stress. Our brain receives a flow of disturbing messages from the affected part of our body. This adds to the sum of the messages which our brain has to integrate, and so forms a background which will add to impulses from other areas, and make us more likely to develop stress.
In this respect, ill health adds to the background of disturbing impulses in two different ways. First there is the flow of impulses originating in the part of our body affected by disease or injury. But our ill health adds a secondary flow of disturbing impulses originating from our worry about our condition.

Arthritis
ŤDamn it! I'm so slow. It's my feet. Each time I put a foot to the ground it hurts. My shoes! Why can't they make shoes that fit? They say it's arthritis. I say it's the shoes. But that's not the trouble. It's those damn grandchildren. Have to live with my daughter. No consideration for me. I don't know what I am to do. ť
The discomfort from his arthritis keeps the nerve cells of his brain over-alert. The noise of the grandchildren is just an extra stimulus. He overreacts, blows up. Everything goes wrong.
Any physical treatment that can be given to help him with his arthritis will make things easier for him with the grandchildren. And it works the other way. If the noise of the grandchildren worries him, his perception of the discomfort of his feet becomes so much the more intense.
The whole situation will be improved if he can be persuaded to let his mind run quietly for a short while two or three times a day. Such a proposition must be put to him in such a way that it will not offend him. Otherwise he will interpret such a suggestion as criticism of himself, and he is likely to blow up, saying, 'It is the grandchildren that are the trouble, not my brain, and my feet are no help.'
According to circumstances, it may be wise to introduce the subject with this kind of approach: 'Some time ago, I myself suffered persistent pain from a strained muscle. I did not know what to do with myself until a doctor put me on to the idea of relaxing in a kind of meditation. It would be worth a trial.'

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