Designer Harald Glööckler was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. In an interview, he revealed how much the 57-year-old suffers from it. Severe psychological stress in childhood can increase the likelihood of being affected by the chronic disease.
Actually, Harald Glööckler (57) is always in a good mood and never at a loss for a snappy saying. But when it comes to this topic, the designer is unusually serious and thoughtful. No wonder, after all, Glööckler was diagnosed with the incurable disease fibromyalgia. What that does to him, he revealed in an interview with the magazine “Das Neue Blatt”.
Due to the illness in the designer’s life, there seem to be no really carefree and pain-free days. Harald Glööckler explains: “I have pain all over my body.” And goes on to specify: “I have a headache, a sore throat, everything swells up. My hands start to tingle and my feet get stiff.” The pain syndrome limits his mobility and makes him feel older than he really is. The 57-year-old reveals: “Some days I feel like I’m 100 years old because of my fibromyalgia.”
But what is fibromyalgia anyway? It is a chronic disease that cannot be cured. According to the current state of medicine, the symptoms can only be alleviated, but not completely avoided or suppressed. Sufferers suffer from severe pain in different areas of their body – especially near muscles and joints. The spine is almost always affected as well. With only two sufferers per 100 people, it is a relatively rare disease that tends to affect women more often than men.
In connection with Harald Glööckler, the causes of fibromyalgia are of particular interest. Risk factors for a disease are stress on the one hand and severe psychological stress on the other, such as abuse in childhood.
This is exactly the case for Harald Glööckler. During his participation in “I’m a star – get me out of here” earlier this year, he shared his traumatic childhood with the whole of TV Germany.”My father was a butcher and he was violent. And I keep trying to find a second where as a child I wasn’t afraid when I come into a room or come home without the mother lying on the floor bleeding or maybe even dead. So pictures where the father runs after the mother with a knife or a cleaver. That’s natural terrible, it’s just one zombie film,” said Glööckler at the time. It is all the more to be hoped that these experiences, which had such a bad impact on his childhood, will not continue to haunt him in adulthood.
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