Unspoken Emotional Distress and Its Role in Physical Illness

Dr. Patricia Farrell
BeingWell
Published in
4 min readMar 20, 2022

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Illness can be brought on or exacerbated by an inability to communicate our mental concerns or emotional needs.

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Uncertain times can turn our lives into a whirlwind of confusion. Imagine what that must be like for children or young adults entering college. School makes demands of kids, which we deny and, in our wish to believe it is a time of joy and wonder, we…

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Dr. Patricia Farrell
BeingWell

Dr. Farrell is a psychologist, consultant, author, interested in flash fiction writing (http://bitly.ws/S94e), and health.