anxiety & scd [dusty]

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Hi Dusty,

I just found your full message. (I am getting these posts in digest

form now, and am not super savvy with that yet.)

Further to my post a bit ago about GAPS, yes, I had extreme chronic

anxiety (and depression, OCD, occasional panic attacks, and occasional

hallucinations) from childhood onward. Like your daughter, I also

eventually took Paxil.

Different elimination diets helped me a lot, but because of my

cravings, etc, I just couldn't stick with them.

After my son (now 3 yrs old) developed autistic-like traits and then

diarrhea, the latter resulting in a diagnosis of Celiac, I found SCD.

I was heartened because it promised to address both the diarrhea and

the autistic behaviours.

I started him on the program set forth in the book Breaking the

Vicious Cycle. The results were nothing short of tremendous. After

mistakes led to a setback, though, I decided to start from scratch. I

happened to be reading the GAPS book and, since it uses SCD to heal

anxiety, OCD, etc, as well as the belly pains, etc, I figured my son

and I might as well do that program together.

My son's progress was even better on this wider program --he is now

completely normal-- and, in just four months, I have virtually no

depression, no anxiety, no OCD, etc. I have been having peace and

happiness and enjoyment of life for the longest stretch of my life.

My favourite thing about GAPS is that, unlike all the other healing

diets I've done, including even the basic SCD, I have had no cravings.

(Well, three or four times in four + months.) That has made it easy as

pie for me to do this.

So, yes, SCD can heal these. It's awesome that your daughter is

starting her healing at a third of my age.

Baden

> have you dealt with anxiety/panic and the SCD helped you?