= Stiff Person Syndrome (#SPS): A Repressed Emotion = Discovery.032.version.1.1.part.1
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) is a rare autoimmune neurological disorder causing progressive muscle stiffness, rigidity, and painful spasms, mainly in the torso and limbs, triggered by stimuli like noise or touch, leading to falls and anxiety. Source: Google AI.
Our job involves singing in front of a large audience four times a week. We experience nervousness that we need to purge by relaxing the day after our performance. Our psychological well-being doesn’t synchronize with a fixed schedule.
Our brains contain memory boxes that operate as accumulators for each of our emotions. A feeling has an electrical charge. Too many activities lead to a compression of time for oneself: this is stress.
This stress accumulator has a large energy storage capacity of several months. We need to empty this reserve regularly with time for ourselves: this is freedom.
Otherwise, the stress box will be subjected to excessive pressure and explode, causing a violent electric current to flow through the brain and nervous system. We will then experience the symptoms of the stiff person syndrome who paralyzes us for several minutes.
If we ignore this psychological warning, we will experience trauma: the fear of suffering this discomfort again. This will cause the stress box to explode violently at regular intervals, even if this one hasn’t reached its maximum capacity.
Let’s identify our past aggressor. Our apprehension will fade in part. We have won half the battle.
Now, we must find a way to eliminate the emotional shock and, at the same time, rid ourselves of the stiff person syndrome. My messenger: heavenly Luc Tanguay, the beloved uncle of cousins Joël, Serge, and Charles.
Text by Steve L. Rodrigue — version 1.1 part 1 — January 5, 2026 — The City of Québec, Canada.