Chagas Disease

Chagas disease is a tropical infectious disease triggered by a parasite that embeds itself in tissue — preferring the heart muscle. What medicine describes as organ infestation carries a remarkable precision on the symbolic level: something foreign enters your heart and damages it from within. Not from the outside, not through a visible attack — but through a silent intruder that nests in the place where you are most vulnerable.

Medical treatment of this illness is non-negotiable. But the question BodySignal adds is a different one: What in your life is attacking your heart — not the heart muscle, but what the heart stands for? Your capacity to feel. Your vulnerability. Your authenticity. What has settled inside you that hollows out these qualities from the inside?