New To List/Raw Diet and Need Help!

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Hi all,

I just joined the list and am brand new to eating raw. I've fed my

dogs raw, grass-fed meat for years but never thought it was necessary

for myself until recently. I have suffered depression for YEARS (18

to be exact and probably undiagnosed as a child) and I'm always

looking for ways to improve my life. My ultimate goal is to get off

my medication or reduce it to the bare minimum.

So, where I am now. I've stopped eating any cooked foods for the most

part. I think the only non-raw stuff I'm eating right now is a little

salad dressing (or is that raw?) and my afternoon snack of a small bag

of gorp (with M & Ms). I've been eating raw nuts (pecans, almonds,

walnuts), raw veggies, and fruit for about 2 weeks and just purchased

a share of a cow and started drinking raw milk this past Friday, Sept.

26th. I also purchased some mozzarella, raw cottage cheese (YUM), and

heavy cream. I'm weaning myself of caffeine and I think this has been

the hardest part!

Prior to switching to raw, I ate a very low-fat diet, drinking skim

milk and such. My diet wasn't horrible by the typical American diet

standard as I didn't eat fast food or, really, much processed food. I

did eat cooked meat and veggies and some carbs.

Now, my problem. Since this past Saturday I have been incredibly

irritable. I always suffer a little irritability as part of my

depression but NOTHING like this. This has been horrible. This

morning on my way into work, I almost got into a serious accident

because I was in a rage and tailgating a guy. This is not like me and

I switched to a raw diet to improve my irritability. It's the start

of the 4th day feeling like this and I'm a little (perhaps a lot)

scared. I stopped drinking the raw milk completely as of yesterday,

Tuesday, because the irritability coincides with when I started

drinking that. I hope it's not that. I haven't really seen an

improvement.

Could this be a sign of detoxing? Getting all the stuff from years of

a bad diet out of my body? Doing away with sugar (except the few M & Ms

completely? Could I be eating too many fruits? Too many nuts? I

haven't quite made the switch to raw meats but am considering it. Is

raw meat an important part of the raw diet or can I get my animal fat

from the milk?

ANY help would be so much appreciated as I'm feeling a little lost. I

don't understand why I felt better on my crappy diet.

Thanks in advance,

Elliott and the JRTs & BC

Nunn, CO