Hi all. This may be complementary to your question Plelone. I've just taken a look at your link, and it really set me thinking about my own history of fatigue problems.
Pardon my off loading all of this but I've struggled through almost 18 years of chronic fatigue which appeared out of almost nowhere at age 35, on the face of it caused by a thyroid problem (i had a thyroidectomy for a thyroid cancer in 2005) , caused by gut problems, caused by candida and caused by it's now looking like mercury poisoning.
I've tested positive for a high level of immune response to mercury. (am about to commence chelation therapy having had 8 amalgam tooth fillings removed)
I'm much better than I was, but still suffer from low energy and high blood pressure, and know that all is still not right as I almost never feel truly well.
While I'm not bad at the moment I've been very ill for periods of years at a time - secondary issues like neuritis, chronic sinus infections, back trouble, immune dysfunction, foggy brain, gout, migraines, food sensitivities and inappropriate long term prescription of antibitotics by a doctor have not helped either.
While the silver lining has been the triggering of a long search for meaning which almost immediately started me down the spiritual path (I doubt I'd have survived without Buddhism and meditation) it's basically destroyed the core years of my working life as every time I've tried to get something off the ground that requires commitment I've gotten ill. To the point where at this stage I'm a bit gun shy.
Being an engineer with a rationalist bias towards the physical (slowly being eroded by experience
) it never crossed my mind that the cause could possibly be something like psychic or similar attack. Reading the article and others like it is a bit of an eye opener though - lots of the symptoms sound awfully familiar. Especially the talk of abrupt energy drops, minds effects and so on.
Presumably one would expect physical and psychic causes and effects to intertwine.
I've certainly been around people that fit the bill as regards being unconscious but very serious energy vampires, most notably my parents (who as a result of my emotional openness and naivety and a seriously dysfunctional relationship were a huge struggle for many years - the start of the troubles more or less coincided with my moving back into the vicinity of the family home having been away for most of my life at school and work) and one that I worked with. Five minutes in their house is enough to drop my energy through the floor - nowadays I stay away as much as I responsibly can.
I've done lots of work on forgiveness and breaking ties with a spiritual healer that has helped, but there's maybe still a way to go. I've likewise managed to at least partially break an energy blockage in the solar plexus/3rd chakra area at a TMI Gateway programme last year - this was quite painful and produced an enormous emotional release.
I've found since that Kundalini meditation raises my energy and helps so much, but it's incredible the way I can go from being all fired up to being hardly able to drag myself around in a hour or so.
So what gives? Do any of you have any experience of this sort of thing? How can one establish if there's something going on? Any thoughts on fixes?
Thank you all....