A surprising heath issue that affects many Aspies...

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I was listening to Tesh radio last night (which is more outspokent and honest than most) and they briefly mentioned 3 common things that hinder health.

1) Stress. (you can well imagine.)
2) TOO MUCH exercise (which is seen to the body as stress)
*3) RESENTMENT! (which puts the body under significant stress!)

I was a little surprised to hear it at first, but it makes a lot of sense - and I know many of us harbour resentment for all the knuckle-dragging goons who have made our lives so difficult for so many years!

For the sake of our own health - body and mind - we really do need to at least picture ourselves forgiving the people who have hurt us, apparently the health benefits are felt quite rapidly! Depression, concentration, relaxation and sleep should be improved as well. (Note, I said "improved" not "totally repaired".)


Thought that was worth chewing on for a while. I have plenty of people to forgive, and a lot of resentment to dump - and I've read lots of WP members say the same.

Regards!

Forgiveness... I agree. But how do I learn to?

You're right, I should forgive everybody for all the crap they put me through and for never trying to understand "weird" me.
But it feels so good to keep a grip on the resentment.

:Kills himself:

I am always stress
never excersise
resent to the point of hatred most everyone

Definitely. The cure is living with joy. Simple but hard to do. But it's the cure. THE cure to all that ails us. From a to z.

A book called The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama. Not a religious book, it's for anyone of any belief. It's an incredible book. I keep reading it again and again.

Another point for living entirely in the moment. I dont have this problem. I have no regrets and no resentment about my past. What would be the sense in that, its not like I can change it.

I need to jot this one down on the pro's and con's list for my Doctor.

I'm not surprised. Stress is not good for the body, and aspies are under a lot of it.

1. Stress-Some stress, defined as making a purposeful change in your life and setting the bar higher for yourself, is a good thing. The things that come at you unexpectedly are the bad stresses, and these can lead to depression or collapse.

2. Too much exercise-People put their butts in over their heads, definitely. If you have a sedentary job, and try to run a marathon on the weekend, that's a recipe for a heart attack. Also, if people work out, a rest period of a day is needed to recover. When they say "getting ripped," it's literally true.

3. Forgiveness-In some instances, it is not a virtue to forgive, if you let someone do the same thing to you over and over. There are some things I definitely won't condone in the first place, much less forgive.

Yes, good post.

I resent a lot and it does chew you up inside.

I also get stressed a lot, my medical certificate says I have Asperger's and Anxiety Disorder - not otherwise specified.

The stress and resentment feed off one another. When something stresses me out I feel intense resentment towards it for making me stressed, the resentment stresses me more, so I resent the thing that stressed me even more... Feedback loop.

I recognise this shortcoming and I really seek to overcome this, it's preventing me from doing a lot of the things I need to do to function properly in society.

I have also noticed some other weird health things common to Aspies.

One is that I see a lot of AS kids who are screened for scoliosis. My son's pediatrician says that it's actually common among her children on the spectrum to have to get back x-rays because the school has sent home a screening notice for scoliosis. I know that I have what is commonly referred to as a sway back which means that my spine tends to curve slightly toward my dominant side in the middle and inward once you get down to my lower back. It's weird, but common.

I've also seen that spontaneous pneumothoraxes are common for AS boys as well. Since one of the contributing factors to SPs is stress, that makes sense that we would be more susceptable to them.