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Irritable Bowel Syndrome  I have struggled with a certain a condition for a long time. Every time I was nervous, boom, bloating or urge to the toilet, have to give a presentation, boom, have to answer a question in class, boom, the night before exams, boom, waiting for results to come out, boom, you get the picture. Even when I want to see a doctor, he did the some tests and concluded that I am fine, when I wasn't definitely fine, something which often occurs, when doctors can't assign a physical sickness they often dismiss it.   Introduction So what its this nasty and quietly life destroying sickness which can impact your work, relationships and life in general. Irritable bowel syndrome(IBS) is a medical disorder of the stomach  characterized by a group of symptoms that commonly include  abdominal pain , abdominal bloating and changes in the consistency of  bowel movements.  Symptoms usually are experienced as acute attacks that subside within one day, but...

  Economic Trauma Introduction When we talk about health and causes of diseases we often don't consider financial wellbeing to be one. Unfortunately financial health has deep consequences both in our immediate health like stress, anxiety, addiction, insomnia obesity and hypertension to later in life with diseases like diabetes, cancer, stroke, heart attack , post traumatic stress disorder and dementia. It can also lead to divorce. Trauma is defined as an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster. Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical. Economic trauma can become generational trauma. Impact of Economic Trauma on a Child Economic trauma can impact a person from time of being in uterus as a fetus, to the early formative years to school performance, friendship building, truancy, drug addiction, intimate relationships in the future, and repeating the cycle of generational trauma. Economic trauma can even lead to infertility in w...