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Can Celiac/gluten Sensitivity Anxiety Ans Depression Lead To Interpersonal Issues?

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Have you found that when your celiac or gluten anxiety and depression cleared up or improved, that things just got easier and clearer interpersonally and socially?

Can anxiety lead to actual social anxiety, difficulty being in social situations and fear of rejection and what not?

I have all the above, have struggled through life, self-help books and groups and therapies, yet almost everyone tells me I look confident and social and have a great personality (well except that I did struggle with relationship difficulties that my last therapist help me accept and remedy).

and I must say that as I am getting older (I'm now 38), I struggle more with anxiety (though I ironically face my fears and anxieties more because I have developped srategies, I feel like I am more and more mentally and emotionally exhausted and feel like I am loosing control inside).

Help me see a little more clearly please.

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My panic attacks

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My panic attacks

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ps did you feel crazy, like it was all in your head??

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That sounds a lot like how I felt. But it definitely wasn't like flipping a switch when I went gluten-free. I don't have panic attacks but I do still get anxiety, I do still deal with depression. It just feels like it's very slowly oozing off of me.

Have you gone gluten-free yet or are you just thinking about it?

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ps did you feel crazy, like it was all in your head??

Ha. Yes. Especially since doctors kept implying (or telling me directly) that it was all in my head, depression, anxiety and/or stress.

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Ha. Yes. Especially since doctors kept implying (or telling me directly) that it was all in my head, depression, anxiety and/or stress.

I feel the same. I hope going gluten free helps me. I am on day 2. I need a lot of faith, espeically if my test comes back negative. My doctor would ONLY test me for tTG antibodies.

And since I did have serious depression and anxiety going through the roof a few years ago, for which she saw me and prescribed meds to me, she kept asking all these questions to me 2 days ago during my appointment: are you crying a lot, do you have friends, are you feeling like this and like that. to the poitn where it was annoying and embarassing. :(

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Depression and anxiety before I went gluten free cost me a lot, including my marriage and impacted my relationships with my children.

My depression lifted relatively quickly gluten free and the only time I am depressed now is when I am glutened.

My anxiety is another story but I had a lot of bad life experiences and have had PTSD for years. That actually got worse gluten free as I had such violent reactions to gluten. I became seriously agoraphobic but I did seek help with that when I got to the point where I couldn't leave the downstairs of my home or even go into my yard. It has been a couple of years now and I am on an antianxiety med and therapy that allows me to live a fairly normal life.

However many who have anxiety issues have seen them resolve with the diet. Since my PTSD had little to do with gluten, other than being fearful of being glutened, that didn't resolve without help.

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Hello..

I think anxiety and depression can most definitely be caused or exaggerated by gluten intolerance and/or celiac.

For me personally, the part of my depression that felt like a black hole lifted immediately upon going gluten free. I had lived with it throughout my entire life, and it caused be the loss of many friends, drug use, intense rage towards others, and many parts of my life that i'm not proud of. Since going gluten free, I now understand that crying for "no reason" other than feeling like you're in a black pit of depression is abnormal. Even for the depression that DOES linger for real logical absences in my life, I am not able to handle it and I never feel hopeless anymore.

Hmmm... Well, I am thoroughly convinced that anxiety is related to gluten intolerance, AND bacterial overgrowth, endotoxins from candida for instance is known to cause excess anxiety. Gluten sends my anxiety and paranoia levels up through the roof, after it puts me into 'the black pit' of despair. My anxiety levels definitely improved after going gluten free, but they didn't disappear completely. What helped my anxiety the best is a good body cleanse and getting the body to an alkaline state so that it can deal with candida overgrowth, which wheat is a huge cause in. For me, it is night and day for my social anxiety levels, which I also suffer with.

I for one believe that anxiety and depression can imrpove drastically with diet, but gluten free won't do all of the work. For me, if I stop eating gluten but I'm still ingesting lactose and soy, I will still have anxiety and depression and a pretty severe reaction although slighter than my gluten reaction.

Secondly, if I am not consuming gluten and lactose/casein, but am still consuming rice, corn, nightshades, or any packaged foods, my symptoms linger.

So yes, I think there is some hope for you with going gluten free, it is a major help in depression and anxiety. After this change, I would look into a cleanse of sorts that will clean your system of bacterial overgrowth, and that will re-alkalize your body... that could be really amplifying your anxiety levels as well (simply from my own experience..)

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