Reply To: GBS from Stress

“Stress” is not a well-defined medical term. http://www.stress.org/what-is-stress/ It is not useful in explaining what causes GBS and related disorders. The fact is, the etiology of GBS is not well understood. It is known that Campylobactor jejuni can be a trigger, but there may be many triggers. The cause of any particular case of GBS is usually not knowable.

I would be skeptical of any doctor who attributed my illness to “stress.” If a doctor recommended Qi Gong to me or used terminology like “energy flow,” I would find a new doctor right away.