Granulocytopenia

Your blood is producing too few granulocytes — those white blood cells that serve as the first line of defence against invaders. They are the sentinels who patrol, who intervene immediately when something foreign enters your body. When their numbers fall, your immune system becomes porous. You become vulnerable. Infections that others barely notice turn into a serious threat for you.

Medically, there are various explanations — medications, autoimmune processes, bone marrow disease. But the psychosomatic perspective asks a different question: why is your body withdrawing its defenders? Why does it stop producing precisely those cells that are meant to protect you?

The answer leads to an uncomfortable place: your body has stopped defending itself — because at some point you stopped considering yourself worth defending.