Your Signal
Lyme Disease
9 min read
Also known as: Lyme borreliosis · tick-bite disease · Borrelia infection · tick infection · wandering redness · Erythema migrans · Lyme Disease · tick borreliosis · Borrelia burgdorferi · neuroborreliosis
Your Body Is Speaking
A tick bite. A small sting you may not even have noticed. And then an illness begins that spreads through your entire body — joints, nerves, skin, heart. The bull's-eye rash on your skin spreads in a circle like a wave emanating from a centre, reaching ever wider areas. Medically, Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks. The pathogens migrate through the body, settle in, can become chronic.
The psychosomatic perspective raises an additional question — not instead of the medical one, but as its equal alongside: What has created a breeding ground in your inner life? The question is not only which pathogen struck you. The question is why your system was permeable at precisely this moment. Why the defences gave way at exactly this point.
Lyme disease is more than an infection. It is a signal that tremendous forces stand ready within you — and find no passage through.
Your signal is waiting
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