I didn’t really get my mental health under control until I took care of my gut issues like IBS and stuff. Honestly, if you had some chronic, untreated issues w

I didn’t really get my mental health under control until I took care of my gut issues like IBS and stuff. Honestly, if you had some chronic, untreated issues with your ankle and foot - something that plagued you daily - it would be hard to take care of your mental health too. Same if you had lupus, for example. Having something wrong with you - especially something chronic - always makes it hard to take care of your mental health. It makes sense that when you don't have the stress of pain and the other things that go with it, you find the mental energy to work on the brain. Yours just happened to be in the gut, which makes it seem like these articles might be talking about you.