This stems back to when I was finding out what was medically wrong with me. My mom and I eventually figured it’s just stress. I didn’t really do a whole lot about it, because things started to get better (physically that is). However, things are getting worse again. I don’t feel stressed, but it’s now clear to me that my body is. Sometimes I can just feel my stomach all clenched and knotted. I’ve thought perhaps it’s not IBS, but a food intolerance thus I was considering going on an elimination diet to see what intolerance I have. However, upon looking into that, I haven’t even heard of half the foods I’d have to eat (let alone having eaten them before) so I doubt that would work for me.
So my mom and I were talking about it all last night and we concluded, once again, that it likely is just stress (not any of the other things I have thought it could be). Up until this all started (1.5 years ago or so) my life had never really had stress. But suddenly I was waiting for the final marks of my first semester in university, I had uncertainty with my church, uncertainty with my dad’s job, and I had a co-op in a year and there was a good chance I’d be away from home for the first time because of it. So I think it’s pretty clear it was stress and unfortunately, things haven’t really improved all that much.
Thus, upon talking to mom and doing research, I have decided to do a few things. First, exercise. It will help my body relax, destress itself, and plus it’s another goal of mine. Secondly, I will meditate (and hopefully at the same time do the other goal of teaching myself hypnosis). Thirdly, I’m not going to eat as much at one sitting. Then on top of this, I will continue reading the book on stress I bought. It has a set of questions which you answer to see how stressed you are. I find those questions are always difficult to answer since I haven’t been in all of the situations but I tried to answer the best I could. According to the book, I’m on the higher end of having moderate stress.
