An Underactive Thyroid
An Underactive Thyroid and Emotions
Who said, living with an underactive thyroid was easy? Certainly not me and after checking on the internet I found many people are affected in different ways. They are affected by different emotions and sometimes those emotions do have devastating affects.
From the birth of my first child I noticed changes in me as a being that could have and were thought of as the consequences of trauma.
I certainly was traumatized after the birth of my son as he was taken from me and placed in the hands of the adoption agency... or at that time it was the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
A family was found for my son but for years the loss of my child played heavily on my mind. I was and occasionally still an emotional mess, but differentiating between those emotions and the emotions that play on one when you suffer from an underactive thyroid are incredible and for some those differences are hard to distinguish.
I really was an emotional mess and for some they believed that I should forgive and forget... which of course is easier said than done...
From the birth of my first son, the trauma and the fact that I had had to hide what happened to me and yet I still remained with the father of my first son.
Sometime during that time and the birth of my second son my life changed physically and emotionally not for the better but for the worse.
My weight ballooned to a huge 135 kilos, I was depressed, cried all the time, had no energy and I felt like the changes were never ending and I had no idea what was happening to me.
Even now as I write this I look back on my life and wonder how I managed to survive.
Before I met my partner I went from day to day, emotion to emotion, one depressed day after another. My energy was lacking and I was constantly ill.
Many tests later nothing was found and I was labeled a hypochondriac, fat, lazy, good for nothing, I was abused physically and mentally, blamed for a miscarriage that was just not my fault... and the list goes on... Read more...