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Represser-Sensitizers with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Published by tummyblogger August 25th, 2007 in Medical, IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Digesting Information, IBS Symptoms

The term Repressor-Sensitizer is a psychological term used to describe a certain kind of reaction to the discovery of symptoms or of illness. This kind of person, and I’m one, is accustomed to just keeping on keeping on, just hanging in there and getting it done. Until, that is, she or he notices signs of illness, or a usual test produces unusual results, or the doctor sends the person for a lot of dramatically invasive tests.

Then the ability to ignore small physical things that are not quite right goes out the window. Every shift and change in physical functioning gets noticed, felt strongly, and worried about. This is the shift from repressing bodily discomfort to becoming sensitized to every twinge–in your inner ear, in your kidney, and, of course, in your intestines.

I want to introduce the term ‘repressor-sensitizer’ in advance of a discussion next week of two very recent high-profile articles in the medical journal Gut. I think it helps to have the main term I’m going to use clearly in mind before reading my critiques of the Gut articles.