As someone who’s stomach has tried to kill her several times (my worst when I dropped to 88lbs), I can absolutely say that there’s very little safe space inside your head when you’re overpowered by ice-cold shredding pain and vivid nausea every day.

I have a high pain tolerance and I’m mentally resilient, but no, there’s no way to not be depressed or furious or anxious when your flesh suit keep getting hit with the cattle prods.

I take Imipramine among other things (including probiotics and mineral pills for deficiencies) just to control the lightning in my nervous system.

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Yeah for me I worked really hard to deal with the IBS-D to get it under control and I have. Really helps avoid ultra -low mood days. Wish it cured it entirely, but sadly no. But helps me avoid the very worst of it. But on IBS-D days my mood was exceptionally baaaaaad. One of the most significant things I was able to do to make the depression better although not perfect. Don't mean to hit you with TMI but I have also noted that if I had really bad gas that caused some cramping (but no D) could also hit the mood bad. So I take anti-gas enzymes each time I eat something which works to both prevent gas and help with the IBS-D as well. It is interesting to note the inflammation aspect. When I get an IBS-D episode, not only does the mood crater even before the D starts, but I would notice sore joints and muscles too so it was sending out some inflammation signal that caused joint aches (I do not have arthritis BTW) and muscle aches. I wish i cold do special blood tests to see what sort of inflammatory mediator is being produced that causes the aches. Can't afford that level of testing to find out though.

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That's interesting, I was just saying yesterday that my mood on waking up depended on how well I was going to be before I really quite knew that. What I have is looking like gut mobility issues due to spinal injury. I'm pretty keen on the inflammation theories given how much my anxiety unexpectedly improved on anti-inflammatory medication.

I found a cure for IBS through a simple supplementation. If anyone here is interested to know its name, DM me.

It wasn't out of embarassment either. Nobody was around. It was food I cooked myself and had plenty of.

I've largely moved past the original childhood stuff. I think a lot of us know it's not our fault and we try to overcome the food addiction but the brain be like that. It was just surreal to have a long buried feeling come bursting out like that.

It certainly doesn't help.

Do any of the somatic therapies like EMDR or EFT work for this?

Maybe but good thing this isn't always the case. For example, see Carl Roger's work.

What the other commenter said. Environment has made recent generations fatter than older generations, and makes people in rich countries fatter than people in poor countries, but in wealthy countries, within the current generation, genetics explains most of the variance in obesity, while upbringing explains very little.

This paper is based on a sample in Macao, and I don't know of any twin studies that were conducted in Macao specifically, so it's possible that they've found a causal factor that's peculiar to Macao or other wealthy East Asian countries. But we should be skeptical of this as a general causal explanation for obesity, given that it's contradicted by twin studies.

Edit: Note that the heritability of obesity doesn't mean that different people with the same lifestyle end up with wildly different BMIs because of genetics. Behavioral traits are also strongly heritable, and it's likely that much of the genetic contribution to obesity is mediated by genetic influences on lifestyle choices, rather than by genetic influences on metabolism.

The cortisol pooping thing comes up in Sapolsky's work on stress, though it's more like "we don't got time/resources to digest food right now, evacuate the bowels and run away from the tiger!" in response to extreme stress than an ongoing situation iirc.

I didn't have to work, don't have a beat myself up mental attitude. I've had IBS symptoms since I was a baby. Got Viberzi and all the IBS symptoms went away within an hour. For me it has always been anxiety, allergies, sleeplessness, dehydration are caused by IBS. The viberzi made it all go away instantly. I don't have anxiety to work through, my gut biome fixed itself in about a month.

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Wait, you mean that having an autoimmune disease that isn't well understood and causes pain, horrible digestive issues, and severe food restrictions that might constantly change and can take years to figure out would cause people severe mental anguish?

Shocker.

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This research confirms what I have been saying for over a decade. I used to deal with a lot of mental health issues in my twenties when my gut health was my worst. Chronic IBS.

I got my gut fixed with dietary changes and high grade probiotics (VSL#3) and slowly but surely my mental health got significantly better. It took years and I did a lot of work on myself, a lot of mindfulness practice and meditation, lots of physical exercise.

Now I'm an all-around solid dude who rarely has anxiety and has a suit of emotional armor +5 defense swarthy gear all around.

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Stop eating sugar, take probiotic supplements

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Lucky me I have both! However found an injectable non steroid medication that seems to be working, although they are the most painful injections I've ever had to take. It's still worth it to be able to sleep at night without feeling like I'm going to rip my skin off.

Fecal Transplants.

Yes seriously.

It's exactly what you think. Healthy person's poop in a blender, pour into a bag, enema. (Or, if you can hold your nausea, a nasal tube that goes directly to your stomach, to hit the upper digestive tract too).

If it works, it works fuckin' instantly. You now have a healthy person's guy biome.

Also, an instant cure for c-diff poisoning and a bunch of other stuff.

Probably the lowest tech, most massively impactful treatment we've discovered for tons of stuff.

>By eating foods that foster serotonin production in the gut, theoretically more serotonin would be available for the brain, but it is not a totally linear correlation, as serotonin in the gut does not necessarily make it to the brain.

Serotonin produced in the gut does not make it to the brain. Serotonin that circulates in the periphery functions more like a hormone and does not cross the blood-brain barrier to impact "serotonin available for the brain".

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>There’s also research that shows cortisol (a stress hormone) can negatively impact gut health, which may be why some people feel the need to evacuate their bowls when they’re scared (colloquial known as “shitting one’s pants”).

Where are you getting your information? This whole comment is full of misinformation.

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Thanks u/volcanoesarecool. I can't respond because I was blocked for whatever reason, but I appreciate the info.