Mind Surpassing Body?

As an organic living being I'm prone to constant change as we all are. My point? Sometimes I break out. It's about 10% hormones and 90% stress. Seriously, I've been told by both my doctor and a dermatologist. Either way, It's always been manageable. Almost always.

In October, I was falsely arrested and spent 18 days in jail, costing me both my job and my livelihood. Worse, they had me sign a paper saying I wouldn't sue for false arrest before they set me free. They threw me in the hole for the first 3 days to "evaluate me" because of my stress disease. Mind you, I went so long without being seen that they forgot to feed me so I doubt they did much evaluating. Way to go, judicial system. Anyway, that's only the beginning and the point is I signed it.

About a week later my long stint of clear skin came to an abrupt end. Strange bumps appeared in places I've never broken out before and they hurt like hell. At this point I shook it off and waited for it to heal. It not only got worse, but by the beginning of November these marks formed on my right foot in the gap by my big toe and started to travel all the way up my leg.

I spent the next few days thinking I got into something I was allergic to until these marks became holes as deep as they were wide and rather than healing with time they got deeper. Then the light came on: Wait...I just got out of jail. This could be anything! I rushed to my doctor at her soonest availability (3 or 4 days later) and am presented with a startling revelation.

DR. DANICKA: I'm not saying this to give you any bad ideas and I commend you for your will, but your body is trying to kill yourself because you won't. Your mental threshold for stress has surpassed your physical threshold, and now your body is opting out by eating itself. No. More. Stress.

I developed an isolated case of stress-induced shingles, which means my flesh was dying everywhere and fast. The worst part was the only cure was me finding a new way to survive this world and how I felt about it. I thought it was impossible. I thought I was doomed. Finally, after a costly ritual, I had a revelation that sounds much easier said than done: just let go....