I left football, and overnight, I couldn't walk. I wet the bed even though the bathroom was only three meters away. It was 4 A.M., and I knew if I stood, my ankle would kill me.
Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise.
I was very lucky. My neck hurt and I went to my doctor, who was kind of hip, and he said it was stress-caused and that I needed to learn how to meditate. So I learned how to do Transcendental Meditation.
After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.
I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.
Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.
I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.
I have Tourettes syndrome.
Well, much of my research over the years has been on stress, and the adverse effects of stress on the health of the central nervous system. All things considered, I've been astonishingly unhelped by my own research.
I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was.
At its worst, there's just virtually no organ system in your body that's not thrown out of kilter in some way by chronic psychological stress.
As soon as I go to another area, another climate, I always have this kind of pressure in my sinuses. Honestly, I used to worry about a lot, I'd think something was wrong with me.
