Short conversational video where Dr. Robert Whitfield and Madison discuss how the loss of a loved one (e.g., mother, spouse) can significantly increase stress and trigger both mental and physical health symptoms. Madison describes feeling 'okay' while internally deteriorating until her mother's death 'tipped everything over'; Dr. Whitfield shares his own experience losing his mother in his twenties.
Obviously, that's what I mean. I want that for everyone. Now, the thing that Madison talked about, I haven't had people bring up, but I know having a loss of a family member, a loved one, a spouse, is a very huge deal in terms of stress, and it can definitely trigger, you know, symptoms. I've seen, you know, physical events, but, you know, that's a very, you know, important life event that can definitely.
Stir up a lot.
Yeah. And I kind of think it's like when people say they feel okay. Right. Like, maybe someone eats fast food every day and they think they feel okay, but you don't know what okay is. Like, you're okay. Could be so different than someone else's okay, if that makes sense. And I think I felt fine, and I was getting through the days, but I just think internally, my body was clearly not fine. And one major event, like my mom passing away just kind of tipped everything over and derailed the whole train.
Yeah. That's a huge life event.
Yeah.
And you're a young person. I lost my. My mom when I was in my twenties. She passed away. But that's a very big. And you don't really probably.
Fully realize how much it affects you until you're, you know, maybe further beyond it, and you look back and go.
