Dear Dina:

I believe in a very, very strong connection between the mental and the physical. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing as non-physical. Every thought we have, every emotion is a result of a physical process in the brain and the rest of the body. Just as even though we don’t see air, it still exists and is very much a physical thing.

Anxiety, excess, ongoing fear is very taxing, draining. I am only recently feeling more energy while in the past I was so very fatigued. Only recently, with the healing of late, am I less fatigued.

I see anxiety as the origin of most mental disorders and many physical illnesses, again, the two are not separate.

Did your father or your mother ever addressed their anxiety, the kind that may have preceded his CFS?

anita