Breast Gland Inflammation (Mastitis)

The breast is glowing. It is swollen, reddened, tender to the touch — sometimes so intensely that even wearing a T-shirt becomes an ordeal. Fever may accompany it, chills, a leaden fatigue that forces you to drop everything. Medically, mastitis is an inflammation of the breast gland tissue, commonly caused by milk stasis or bacterial infection, most often during breastfeeding — but not exclusively.

From a psychosomatic perspective, a different question arises. The breast is the symbol of nourishing, giving, providing. It stands for the maternal in the broadest sense — not only toward a child, but toward everything you feel responsible for. When this tissue becomes inflamed, when the flow of giving stalls and turns into a hot, painful congestion, your body is showing you something essential.