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Interesting, you just helped me possibly connect something in my own life. When I was a kid I used hate using school toilets. And I was a highly anxious kid wh
by wnolens 5y ago
Interesting, you just helped me possibly connect something in my own life.
When I was a kid I used hate using school toilets. And I was a highly anxious kid which would present as stomach butterflies. I dealt with constipation as a kid, which further made me nervous because I'd experience it AT school and be too afraid to sit down a while at school.
Fast forward 20 years, the most stressful time of my life (moving cities, dealing with depression, mom got cancer, ...) and I developed IBS-C. My intestines don't move thing along, need to stimulate with drugs.
Unfortunately it hasn't gone away.
- skim_milk 5y agoLots of people note IBS diseases getting better or going away after life stress is dealt with and goes away, or is brought on because of psychological stress. Here's one example by an ex-psychotherapist (one of my favorites on YouTube) that, after fixing his stress, went from needing to go to the restroom 15 time a day with blood in his stool to going completely in remission after changing his life and lowering his stress levels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9brVhmWr2M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9brVhmWr2M Different people with different biology react differently but my bodily reaction to stress happened to be a lot like the one in the video.