Hidden Ways Mold Can Effect Your Relationships

In mold illness circles, people are fairly well versed in the common ways mold can disrupt health. As an immunosuppressant and neurotoxin, mold can be at the root of recurrent infections, cognitive, behavioral, or memory dysfunction, and of course pain and mobility issues, just to name a few.

Less commonly discussed are the ways mold exposure can disrupt your social and emotional relationships. Mold has the capacity to become a stealth weapon by eroding connections in your support network. More importantly, mold has the power to tear apart people’s lives, without them ever knowing what hit them.

Lack of support from loved ones, abuse, unresolved medical mysteries, addictions, and divorce are a few of the complications that arise from mold illness that can divide and conquer a previously harmonious family unit.

Understanding the root cause of the dark under current sweeping you away from your needed social network may prevent a lifetime of pain from the fallout of such a storm.

Two mechanisms in which mold may cause personality and brain changes include an anticholinergic response and a traumatic brain injury [TBI]. An anticholinergic response can be caused by a nerve agent, like neurotoxins released from mold. This response can alter people’s stress response causing feelings of rage, an inability to connect, and an inability to cope.

Mold alters the brain consistent with a TBI-brain volume increase that can actually change the size of various parts of the brain. Brain changes can cause adverse personality changes that can lead to damaged and dysfunctional relationships.

Lack of support from loved ones can be rooted in both of these mechanisms, even if the family members, “seem unaffected.” Sometimes the sickest person in the house has the most overt symptoms, while other family members who have little to no symptoms, still seem to be affected in less obvious ways. These less obvious ways can take the form of intolerance to people’s suffering, resentment, lack of empathy, inability to cope with stress, or anger outbursts over small issues.

Lack of compassion for a loved one’s suffering is a red flag that mold indeed is having an affect on one’s personality. Brain changes or exposure to nerve agents can disrupt thinking, feelings, and emotions resulting in imbalances in relationships within a sick building.

Mold Illness Can Cause Trauma but Trauma Does Not Cause Mold Illness.

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