Aplastic Anemia

Your bone marrow — the factory at your innermost core, producing billions of new blood cells every day — has stopped working. Red blood cells that transport oxygen. White blood cells that protect you. Platelets that close wounds. None of these are being produced in sufficient quantities any more. Your body has lost its most fundamental capacity for renewal.

Medically, aplastic anemia is a rare and severe disease in which the bone marrow fails. But the psychosomatic perspective raises an additional question: what is happening inside you such that your body has stopped nourishing itself? Why has the source from which your life stream is fed ceased to flow?

Aplastic anemia is not an ordinary deficiency, but a silencing of the deepest productive force in your body — as though it had decided to stop supplying itself from within.