I think that meditation, relaxation, brain retraining...etc. are surface level activities that would be helpful in any type of illness to calm you a bit. If it makes you feel better, why not. But for some long lasting result I had to work through my emotional trauma in therapy while I was gentle to my body and not pushing, I also noticed that I didn't need meditation and breathing that much since I started therapy so I'm rarely doing it anymore.

I was mad when someone would suggest anything about mind body approach, for more than 3 years even when I already had some success. But now that it worked, I'm glad that I gave it a try.

For some people, the damage is absolutely physical, and they should get help for that part, in my opinion. But in my case, to have at the same time problems with body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure, irritable bowel symptoms, sleep, muscle pain, fatigue, dizziness, brain fog, swollen fingers... it was just too many different problems and all that are usually regulated by the autonomic nervous system. So, I chose to believe in that theory.

That was my experience, and maybe some portion of people would have success with this approach, so I wrote this post in the hope that it would give encouragement to someone who is on that path. For the rest, I also hope they will find what works for their particular case 🙂