Psoriasis vulgaris autoimmune disease. That may not be its commonly recognized name but in the perspective of the medical institution that is the official name.
For some time now, there’s been an increasing awareness of what makes people sick. According to medical institutions the cause of autoimmune disease is unknown as well as many other ailments. Genetics tends to get the first accusation and blame, however that doesn’t lead to any significant change or a promising resolution.
In the modern era, people have become so disconnected from themselves to the point where they’re easily affected by stress and are often emotionally confused.
The immune system and the emotional apparatus have the same function, to preserve what is healthy and to prohibit what is unhealthy. That may be obvious and straight forward but yet the mind cannot register that fact so easily. When the mind and body are disconnected, the psyche is compromised and succumbs to cognitive dissonance, rejecting a simple answer.
Put simply, when the emotions are confused it renders the immune system confused as well.
Interestingly, this disharmony manifests in the form of illness. The medical institution recognizes psoriasis as an autoimmune disease without a clear cause and therefore without a cure.
As someone with ‘psoriasis’, I’ve built a skeptic attitude to the medical narrative. From my experience I’ve come to view this dis-ease as a collection of symptoms that manifest as a result of disunity between mind and body. It is not the object that made me sick but the subject at hand. An object as the ability to compromise the subject’s health only if one has allowed it to do so, whether it is unconscious or not. That is only possible in disunity of mind and body. Before an illness is con-tracted one has to be first con-fused. This was such the case in my experience. The object is least important compared to the subject.
To define stress, I prefer to use the analogy of tabs on a computer. When the mind has too many tabs open it slows its ability to function. Normal tasks become hard, the risk of vulnerability is heightened, outside forces have a greater potential impact or influence.
As for the manifestation my had, flakes and patches were formed, a rash leaving red marks covered over white shells not unlike a scab. If we apply the aforementioned concepts, specifically when the emotions are confused, it then backfires. To create a scenario, when the emotions are placated or depressed it doesn’t get erased, there eventually comes a time when it will return back with equal or greater force similar to a pendulum. As a result of placating emotions, in my case it erupted in a violent manner in the form of a red rash. The cause was inner conflict the effect was outer conflict. When a wound is inflicted it prompts the subject heightened sensitivity, this is especially noticed in sprained ankles and other physical injuries; the susceptibility to pain is greater.
The pain inherent in the suffering was already present. The suffering was not preemptive to pain, it was always there, laying dormant. What type of person suffers? Someone that is in pain of course. What forestalled the contraction of illness I perceived at face value was a shattered relationship, what was embedded at the root was instead rejection, abandonment, resentment and a host of others. A person who does not inherently have these banished emotions cannot perceive a fragmented relationship as a negative or personal attack and accept that narrative at face value. The nature of the latter subject would have the optimism and innocence to walk out peacefully and self assured. Resentment comes from the lack of ability or authority that one has against an object. This lack of authority can turn against the attributer of excess importance into self-hatred. The moment it becomes a habit is the precursor to self sabotage or worse, illness. You could even go as far as to say that in that very moment illness itself was forestalled.
The remedy within.
The remedy is—self identity.
To self identify as someone who avoids, resists or suppresses their pain is to tell yourself you are a sick person.
To identify as someone who inquires to their pain and uses it as an asset is someone who is self autonomous, sovereign, self controlled and self aware. How can a disposition of this astuteness not guarantee good health?
The remedy is simply knowing who you are and where you stand.
To become someone responsible for one’s emotions, reactions, behaviors and aligning it with someone who is astute is the vehicle and road path of healing. A pathway not a destination.