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"I felt like my blood was running backwards," she said.
The weirdest part was what set if off. First she noticed that the symptoms would appear whenever she was around a lot of car exhaust. Then she experienced similar symptoms whenever she was around books. Then it was cigarette smoke and perfume.
"It just kept getting worse and worse," says Jensen, 40, who at the time was living in New York City. "It actually became kind of surreal. It was like being in a Hitchcock movie, like everything was out to get me."
Finally, Jensen says, it got the point where there were so many triggers that she became totally disoriented and completely non-functional. By that point certain foods were also making her sick, as were electronics that emitted radiation, like phones and computers.
Faced with constant irritation, Jensen made the difficult decision to permanently move to upstate New York and live outside in a tent, away from almost all the amenities of modern life. It was the only thing, she realized, that would make her feel normal again.
She was married at the time, but about a year into her stay near Syracuse the marriage ended - in part because she couldn't move back to NYC and her husband couldn't move out to the country. Jensen says she's doesn't hold the breakup against her former husband.
"Most people would probably do what he did because it was such an extreme life change, I wasn't the same person anymore," she says. "I used to be this fun-loving person and suddenly I couldn't do anything, and in certain ways I really needed to do it by myself."
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The article goes on to talk about the psychology of this versus the strictly medical aspects.
The people who are experiencing this don't want to be told they have a "psychological disorder" because these days all that amounts to is a kind of stigma and a reason to push people into the mental health system which is a scam.
But to argue that psychology has nothing to do with this phenomenon would be ridiculous. Psychology has to do with every human experience. The fact that "modern" environments present a being with multiple "triggers" is very perceptive. But to run away from that environment is to admit defeat.
These beings could be a lot more than "canaries" (in a coal mine, which simply die if methane or carbon monoxide levels get too high) if their perceptive abilities could be honed and brought under their own causative control. They could become like dowsers without the need for any dowsing equipment. Any being should be able to be totally aware of its environment. The challenge would be to bring the sensitivity of these beings up to a level of knowing awareness.
But to do this they will have to confront the psychology of the situation. Currently these triggers are resulting in a "flight" or "get sick" reaction. They will have to learn to confront this aspect of the problem if they want to stay healthy, or regain their health.
They are not the only beings who run into this. Almost all of us have triggers that make us afraid or sick. So the psychological aspect of the phenomenon is something we all have to deal with. But don't expect help from the current "mental health" system. They like things this way.