I’m about a week into this going-back-to-eating-gluten thing and aside from the many and various physical side effects [bloating, acid reflux, headaches, tight chest, vanishing voice and thick phlemg to name a few], I’m wondering if there are any emotional side effects. All week I felt like I wasn’t able to do anything. I felt like my brain was all fuzzy, and I was very listless. Nothing interested me and what did, I couldn’t seem to focus on for long and I kept bursting into tears for no apparent reason.
I have been reminded very much of the time I spent at uni, where I pretty much lived on pasta and toast. During that time I was… Well, I suppos the only way I can describe it, is that I seemed to be deeply deppressed with no reason. During the last few weeks of the term I stopped doing anything. I stopped going to classes, I stopped going to my clubs, I stopped going outside my room pretty much full-stop and eventually I stopped doing anything but sitting on my bed and stairing into space or randomly bursting into tears.
I’m not saying that my diet nessisarily had anything to do with that state of affairs. Nor am I saying that I’m going to turn into that person again [at least, I hope not]. All I’m saying is it’s interesting the simmilary between the two events.
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