21 Shocking Women’s Health Stories
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“Every woman should know how much your mental health affects your physical symptoms. I used to think I was being dramatic about cramps and headaches, but once I started managing my anxiety better, many of these issues improved.”
—u/salleybee
“How much repressed emotion can make us sick, how much society tells us to do just that. If you want to be emotionally and physically healthy, you need to find safe ways of expression and movement.”
—u/Object_Quality_9819
“We store trauma in our gut. If you have a ton of unexplained stomach issues, I’d bet you have a ton of unresolved trauma. I went to doctors for years with no answers until one day an old GP told me this and asked me to consider therapy. Therapy was the best thing I did for my mind, my heart, and my stomach.”
—u/just a little donut
