As a social worker, I've learned that the mind, body and spirit are intermingled. One part affects the other, its the way God made us to function. Its actually kind of interesting that God allows us to have physical outward and inward manifestations of what is happening to us psychologically and emotionally as a way to help give us warning. For example, I realized that when I go through an immense amount of stress my hair begins to fall out.
I realized when I was at Vianopolis I was very sick and I didn't realize it as much. I remember always coughing and coughing and coughing and coughing (I was really sensitive to cold, dry air which was very common to dry season at Vianopolis). Finally, one day, I coughed so hard that blood came out. My dorm dad was really alarmed and he took me to the hospital, only then. Of course, it was Via and the only doctor was in an emergency with several other patients. I never got treated for my cough. I never found out why it was there. My mom later explained to me that the coughing made a vessel in throat break- that’s why there was blood.
I know I felt a lot of anxiety about it. People would stare at me as I coughed in the cafeteria. I felt anxious and it made my coughing worse. I wish I could have gone to the doctor once and for all and at least had him check my lungs to see if something was wrong.
Almost every day I feel a pain in my lungs when I breath in and out deeply. The doctor said it isn’t anything serious or to worry about, but it still hurts.
