Stress, psyche and autoimmunity

The big question that is being asked is why did the WBCs act like this? What made the WBCs do this? What made the WBCs misbehave this way and what made them lose their capacity to differentiate self from non-self?

More and more evidences are accumulating to show that central nervous system (CNS) may have a role in immunity and autoimmunity. The CNS has well established intricate feed back connections with the immune system, through the nerve endings and the neuro- transmitter chemicals. If the CNS is disturbed, the whole chain of events can get disturbed.

How and why does the CNS get disturbed?

The CNS is disturbed if your mind is disturbed. Long standing, persistent emotional surges and suppressions go on triggering the loop of intense activity in the limbic (emotions) cortex which finds no time to rest. This excitement not only disturbs the sympathetic and parasympathetic balance as in other conditions like asthma or Irritable bowel syndrome, but it hits the immune system too. The function that is disturbed whenever you are in trouble is the most recently learnt lesson. In the immune system, the killer instinct (a more basic reflex) is an earlier lesson in