Me too. I cannot watch scary movies or go on scary rides -I physically feel sick and shakey afterwards.

I also think emotional stress is not given enough credence. In fact I nearly cried when I saw your message today Susan.  Only this afternoon I was feeling so pressured by my ageing mother’s needs, and the things she undertakes to do sometimes come back to me having to do them....... I then feel quite resentful and have a constant knot in my stomach with trying to be a dutiful daughter, while often experiencing such overwhelming waves of exhaustion. I don’t feel I can joyfully do as much for her as I want to do nor as much as she expects.

My other siblings live further away and are not as accessible to do things at short notice. So she is beginning to rely on me all the time. My CAH sister is in a bad way with her knees and is needing knee replacements, so she can’t do anything to help.

Maybe it’s just a bad day today :-(   and I’ll feel better tomorrow ;-) !!!!!

Nearly three years ago I had to leave my chosen profession because of so many absences due to multifarious health/energy issues. Sometimes I have accused myself of being a wimp but I have come to see that there is a legitimate basis for how I have felt throughout these many times. There is little acknowledgement ’out there’ of how this condition can impact on our daily well-being and because of this lack of acknowledgement we can tend to feel that our problems are not at all valid.