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This could be a long one... do grab a chair and make yourselves comfortable.

I'm a great fan of the work of Arthur Janov (The New Primal Scream).
He controversially claims in this book that through his therapy he can cure or at least prevent cancer and other auto immune disease. I was initially skeptical but now I'm considering rethinking my position.

The seratonin connection:
The basic theory behind this seemingly sweeping claim is the link between repressed pain, the body's own painkiller: seratonin and the depressive effect of seratonin on the immune system .
Indeed he has shown that even the most basic pain killers have a direct detrimental effect on the functioning of the immune system.

He claims ( and has done many medical tests to prove) that by allowing the body to experience the welling up of repressed pain safely through his Primal therapy, the body is restored to a natural safe balance where the body works in harmony . He claims our emotional pain is stored on a cellular level in every single cell in our bodies, and that pain memory is what does the most damage to our bodies if kept in a permanent state of repression. ( neurosis). Conventional therapeutic thinking is to keep ourselves neurotic and keep the pain down rather than let it out, either by chemical means or by encouraging defence mechanisms or responses in order to allow us to function normally.
Part of conventional therapy is to administer drugs such as Prozac which increases the brain's supply of seratonin, thereby depressing the immune system further.

Cancer is an auto immune disease. A disease of the immune system where the body turns against itself, the enemy within.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

What got me thinking about all this? Well my mum has a very rare sort of cancer called a carcinoid, which is a slow growing cancer that produces high levels of seratonin.
There's that seratonin again. It does get about, doesn't it?

She has been taking Prozac for the last 10 years or so.She swears by it, saying it has transformed her life.

So her Prozac increases her seratonin levels, and her cancer increases it tenfold.

Can you see what her body is trying to do? It is trying to kill the pain.
The repressed emotional pain that is the root cause of her cancer and also her NPD. But the painkiller, seratonin, is causing her body to kill itself.

I sit here and I ponder.

Could it all really be that simple?

Is physical and mental wellbeing rooted in facing your demons ?( safely and gradually, peeling back the onion skins of layered emotional trauma until we face our original trauma that we cannot process in words... our birth. )

One last thing.
If you consider that cancer may be caused by emotional repressed pain, and that pain often trickles down through the family, abuse impacting on generations down the family tree, is it that surprising that cancer appears to be heriditary? Could it just be that instead of having a genetic fault that causes it, that the hereditary link is just emotional fallout causing massive repressed pain down through the generations?

I'm not looking for advice, but I'd appreciate your feedback.
I've had such good support in the few short weeks I've been on here.