Lyme Life Monday ~ Broken

I think everyone, at one time or another, feels broken. Lymies feel broken almost all the time. Even if we’re feeling relatively good, we know the potential for relapse. Child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors and trafficking survivors feel broken too. It takes great, focused effort to rebuild a person. Just like rebuilding our immune system from an attack of Lyme and co-infections, multiple structures are affected.

Broken

Our immune system is super complex. We have numerous structures and processes. Macrophages are cells that engulf bad stuff and digest it. Other cells bring nutrients to injured areas and still others take away debris. All of this is on a microscopic level. We may see the swelling or redness or inflamed areas of rashes, infection or injury. We have structural networks that facilitate dealing with invaders too. Our lymphatic system, vascular system, genitourinary system, gastrointestinal system, pulmonary system, and our skin all involved in transporting toxins. In other words; our whole body is involved.

When Lyme attacks, if we catch it early enough, our fight is easier than if it has a chance to settle in and multiply, setting up biofilm communities of protection against our defenses. Once the germs have a hold, we have a bigger fight on our hands. Remission is possible but damaged immune responses require special care and nutrients to get back online. Once the germs have reached the central nervous system, rewiring our brains and rerouting nerves becomes necessary along with killing the germs and clearing toxicity.

It’s easier to heal from sexual abuse if it is caught early too. Actually, I’m pretty sure that healing from any trauma is easier if intervention happens sooner, rather than later. Once the perpetrator has set up a way of keeping the abuse secret, the way biofilms hide germs, then getting past this defense mechanism is harder. Then, after the abuse victim is thoroughly infiltrated and believes that they deserve the abuse and they submit to it, healing is much harder. Their brains need to be rewired with as much long-term effort.

Rebuild

When I was in my early 20s, I did rewire my brain by using the Word of God to change the patterns of thought that I had been accustomed to from CSA and trafficking. I lost babies by miscarriage and got ill more readily than others because of my weakened state, but I learned how to eat well and use supplements and exercise to get stronger.

Lyme, like other trauma, requires vigilance and depending on how much damage has been done, we need to support our internal systems to be able to get stronger and keep living.

• Keep your thoughts pure and positive
• Feed your mind and your body good stuff
• Fight negative influences; mental, physical, financial, and spiritual
• Flush toxins of all kinds; from our bodies and our relationships
• Stay clean inside and out by not allowing a root of bitterness to grow
• Use every resource you have to live well while you’re here
• Remind yourself of your own mortality regularly
• Connect with uplifting people

Broken isn’t dead. It’s just broken. Let’s bind up the broken hearted, lift up the weak, guide the blind, and make every day count.