Complex PTSD

Why does my body hurt too?

A nervous system that spent childhood on watch doesn’t stand down on command. In a Swedish cohort of more than 100,000 people, stress-related disorders were followed by more autoimmune disease. Childhood adversity predicts autoimmune hospitalization decades later. Chronic pain, gut trouble, and migraines cluster here too. It isn’t all in your head. It’s in your whole body.

Research

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Pattern · ResearchStress → immune

In a Swedish cohort of more than 100,000 people, those diagnosed with stress-related disorders went on to develop more autoimmune disease than their siblings. A higher childhood-stress score predicts autoimmune hospitalization decades later. The mechanism story (chronic inflammation, a stress system that stops regulating immunity) is still being filled in. The association is solid. Where else it shows up →

Pattern · ResearchCentral sensitization

Pain systems learn. Keep a nervous system under threat long enough and it turns up the gain. Ordinary signals get amplified into pain, and the pain spreads. The same knob shows up in fibromyalgia, migraine, IBS, and chronic fatigue, and it’s turned up in people with trauma histories. The pain is real; it’s just generated centrally. Where else it shows up →

On the main siteChronic pain →Migraines →

Not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not something Dreamlab treats. This is a map for the curious. The colored dot tells you how solid each piece is.