Medical/Spiritual Advice?
I am seeing professionals about this but the office has been backed up so I wanted to just see if anyone else has experienced something similar and what they have done in response… while I wait.
I have a major negative physical reaction to stress. Yes, this is true of the average human but it is as though my body is in a hyper-empathic response mode. I have always experienced such deep emotion that it often spills over into the physical.
My husband and I were both working in stress 2 years ago, 6 months into that job we moved and my body crashed. I have mentally healed and moved back to a peaceful place but my husband is still/back in a stressful situation.
Recently, I started having unusual reproductive cycle issues/pain. Found something that relieved the issue… long story short: I just came home from a short trip to find my husband VERY stressed about machine malfunction (for work) and as I felt his tension rise, my stomach started cramping. - I believe it was a stress response.
What, if anything, has helped you to not share your spouse’s stress to an unhealthy level?
Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, there is little to nothing I can do to alleviate his stress. So I am trying to find ways to protect my body from that instead.
Edit: That did not capture my thoughts well.
I understand the reasons why he is under stress, always ask to help and support where I can, and do not actively think about it throughout my day. However, when he is sharing about the stress he is under OR I witness it, even as I pray through it - my body often has a negative/painful reaction. From a bigger picture, my doctors agree that a season of personal stress triggered a lot of what I am experiencing… now, I am starting to think that despite my own mental healing, my husband’s continued/traded stress is (one of the things) hindering my ability to heal physically. Not his fault. Yet, a factor all the same.