Gastric Ulcer

Your stomach does not only digest food. It digests your life — your experiences, your conflicts, what you swallow even though it does not agree with you. When an ulcer forms, the stomach acid eats through the protective layer. Your organ is attacking itself. It dissolves from within.

Medically speaking, stomach acid is pitted against mucosa — a balance that has been disrupted. Stress, diet, bacteria are named as causes. But why does this balance tip precisely now? Why precisely in you? And why precisely at the place responsible for processing?

The psychosomatic perspective poses an uncomfortable question: what is eating you up? Not the stomach eating itself — you are eating yourself up. From within, quietly, daily. The gastric ulcer is not a defect, but a cry for help from your body, showing what you will not admit to yourself.