Wegener's Granulomatosis

Your immune system has turned against you — not out of malfunction, but with a frightening precision. It forms nodes of inflammation, known as granulomas, that work their way through your tissue: nasal mucosa, sinuses, lungs, kidneys, sometimes eyes, joints, heart. Medicine calls it granulomatosis with polyangiitis — an autoimmune vasculitis in which the body's own defences attack and inflame the blood vessels. The process is insidious, but relentless.

And that is precisely the psychosomatic picture: a person who has been grinding themselves down for a long time. Who fights against something — tenaciously, doggedly, again and again — without noticing that the battle has long since turned against their own organism. Your body shows you what is happening inside: the energy you pour into an unwinnable war is consuming you from within.