Ulcers

It usually starts invisibly. Somewhere inside you — in the stomach, the intestine, the mucosa — something is eating through, not from the outside, but from the inside. Your own body is attacking itself. Acid that is meant to break down food turns against its own protective lining. What was supposed to protect you is destroying you.

Medically, an ulcer is an open wound that forms where tissue can no longer regenerate fast enough to withstand its own attack. From a psychosomatic perspective, a different question arises: what in your life is so corrosive that your body has decided to dissolve itself from the inside? What inner pressure has built up so long that it is now burning through your own tissue?

Ulcers do not develop overnight. They are the result of a long, quiet process — a tension that finds no expression, and a force that has no way out.