Allergies and the stress response

Most information about allergies discuss what the specific allergen is and how once found out what needs to be avoided. Information about the emotions and the psychology of an allergy sufferer is often left out of the picture.

Types of allergies include food, and environmental. Some say that there is another which can be called situational. For those of you who are reading this and are highly intuitive or sensitive, you know what this is. I’ll save that discussion for another post. Each of these allergic substances are considered stress by the mind.

Allergic reactions occur when the immune system [...]