It has been observed that flare-ups of IBD can occur at the time of stressful situations either physical or emotional. For instance, the first onset of IBD may occur at the time of an attck of a viral or other infectious illness. It also appears likely that some flare-ups of the disease can be triggered by nervous tension or by emotionally stressful life situations. However, this flare-up effect should be carefully seperated from the primary cause of IBD, which is not emotionally based. Indeed they can.
Different persons cope with physical illness in different ways.
Some people can cope with severe illness without an extraordinary emotional reaction. Not at all. Guilt feelings may be the result of the patient's thinking that IBD is caused by psychological factors, and that somehow the patient might have brought on this disease by not controlling his or her emotions. There is no basis for this way of thinking. IBD is not cause by emotions, nor is there anything the patient could have done or avoided doing that may have prevented bringing on this disease.