can raw food help my anxeity?

[zgirl23]

Hello

i have agoraphobia/anxeity and panikk attacts for a few years now. I was wondering if anybody have knowledge about mental health and raw food.

[streetsurfer]

I absolutely believe it will. It brings me calmness. I'd tried some of the standard drugs for anxiety and they totally wrecked my health. Raw, and occassional water and juice fasting is what helped me recover my health the most.

Welcome to the forum zgirl! Give it a try. You really have nothing to lose (except maybe some weight if you need to, your anxiety and phobia, and poor health) and only positive things to gain.

[streetsurfer]

Back to add something.
If raw does not start helping rather quickly you might want to be checked for hidden food allergies/sensitivities. I developed alot of them as a result of the damage done by the pharmacueticals. One would also have to leave any of those problem foods out of their diet for some time to prevent the symptoms they cause. It has taken me a few years but I can now eat some of them without negative effect. Earlier on, when consuming the problem foods, they contributed to the anxiety, brain fog, arthritic like pain, and neurological deficits.

[Icequeen]

I really feel it will help you too. I noticed about 2 weeks into my raw journey that for the first time in my life (and I've always been a wound tight, type A, over achiever personality my whole life) I was CALM. Like soooooooooooo wonderfully, beautifully, CALM. I tell everyone that raw foods is like being on the best valium 24/7. I just can't get over how nothing seems to effect me anymore, or get me "spun up" like it used to.

[Icequeen]

Back to add something.
If raw does not start helping rather quickly you might want to be checked for hidden food allergies/sensitivities. I developed alot of them as a result of the damage done by the pharmacueticals. One would also have to leave any of those problem foods out of their diet for some time to prevent the symptoms they cause. It has taken me a few years but I can now eat some of them without negative effect. Earlier on, when consuming the problem foods, they contributed to the anxiety, brain fog, arthritic like pain, and neurological deficits.

I completely agree with this as well! My daughter had a myriad of food allergies. When she was first diagnosed, she had 11 on her list. Now, 3 years later, we are down to 3. Elimination helps heal the gut flora and the immune responses. Once the flora is stabilized, the reactions tend to dissipate. The ones that tend to not diminish are the ones that cause immunological reactions (life threatening) and has been the case with my daughter. The others (delayed reactions) are what caused the irritability, gastro distress, discomfort, etc. Every single one of those she no longer tests positive for after elimination for a year (she likely lost the allergy earlier than that, we only test once a year)

She has an allergy to food dyes (red being the highest) and if she ingests anything with even a hint of dye, she has what I consider panic attacks (it's hard to decipher what a panic attack looks like in a 6 year old, but that is what it looks like to me).