The System calls it Mental. The Earth calls it Environmental.

Sober Soul Care Sunday: Why Giving Up Booze Made You Feel Worse

The System calls it Mental. The Earth calls it Environmental.

For many of us, the booze was a shield.

We put it down to find peace, but instead, we found a “Leaky Body” that won’t stop screaming.

Your body whispers, then talks and eventually screams like mine did the fall of 2024 and my new doctor and many hospitals could not help me.

If you’ve given up the alcohol only to feel physically worse—more anxious, more inflamed, more exhausted—you need to hear this.

I was born a burden.
For 60 years, I lived as the “silent observer.” A Type A hybrid athlete with a mind people mistook for “stupid” because I refused to share my soul with those who only wanted to dismiss me.

I survived 9 miscarriages, a decade of internal bleeding and a lifetime of being “parentified and petrified.”

I was the stress-cleaner, the perfectionist, the one who was always 15 minutes early—all markers of a soul trying to scrub away the feeling of being “too much.”

I went to the doctors in my darkest hour. 5 colonoscopies. 3 endoscopies. Umpteen blood tests. The result? “Everything is normal, Dee.”

They were looking at the DSM-5 (Mental Health). They should have been looking at the DBM-5 (Biological Environment).

For 8 years, I stress-cleaned my ex’s hoarded home, trying to create a sanctuary in what was actually a toxic mould trap. It took a firefighter, not a doctor, to give me the missing piece: Mould Illness and Sick Building Syndrome.

My “Leaky Body” wasn’t a character flaw or a “mental” relapse—it was a biological response to a poisoned environment.

We aren’t “just depressed.” We are toxic-loaded.

As first-borns, we received the highest toxic flush in the womb (CIRS). We are the ones who don’t get “colds”—we get systemic failure. We are the ones who have had COVID multiple times and almost expired each time because our immune systems were never given a fair start.

Stop being dismissed.

I have written a letter for you to take to your doctor. It includes the specific tests that the standard system refuses to run—the ones that reveal the root cause of your complex PTSD, CIRS, MCAS, and SIBO.

Read the letter and get your checklist here:

👉 https://deesdharma.destresswithdee.love/p/the-root-cause-of-my-complex-ptsd

Your worth is not in the push. Your worth is in the pause.

It is not menopause or andropause but we must pause like our life depends on it because it does.

Learn how to heal yourself at home on YouTube:

📺 https://www.youtube.com/@DeStresswithDeeSOS

(See my pinned comment below to learn why this might be my last year on Earth if we don’t change the laws by March 17, 2027.)