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Did something happen 3 years ago? Maybe a major emotional trauma?
I've had a really bad childhood and experienced a lot of severe emotional trauma throughout my life since then, including at that time.
I do think that what you have can be caused by severe emotional trauma. If that's the case it basically explains why the tests that doctors run come up empty.
There are defense mechanisms that the body can use in cases of trauma that lead to reduced blood circulation which in turn messes up temperature regulation and shows itself as low blood pressure.
That means that the first step would be to move to a safe environment where you aren't constantly exposed to severe emotional trauma. Did you already make that step?
Yes, to the extent it's realistically possible.
And these mechanisms don't involve anything that would show up on medical tests?
His low blood pressure does show up in medical tests. The question of why the body set blood pressure at a certain point is largely unsolved.
In our academic system mainstream medicine doesn't investigate psychological issues and psychology generally doesn't investigate physiological issues like body temperature.
Yet, for some reason the intervening mechanisms don't?
That would require running to see studies with big enough sample sizes to gather proxies for those proxies. There no money to run those studies.
Things that happen through complex patterns of neuron interactions are also not easy to study.