OCD? GAPS? help?

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Hey everyone,Today I learned to search the archives! I'm (re)doing intro after 6 years more-or-less on diet, on day 5 or 6 now I guess. Symptoms I was worried about to start were bloating and looks like new duodenal ulcer. However, everyday on intro I woke up so much clearer than I have b4 in my life. Now I realize brain fog and all sorts of the rest of my psych problems are being exasorbated (if not outright caused). Tried the giprohealth acidophilous yesterday, half a pill, god I've never felt that good in my life!!!!! thank god for it.

I'm trying to feel my way out of intro and gauge what I should and should not tolerate symptom wise when introducing foods. I haven't had D for years so that's no clue. 50% juices were hurting ulcer too much so I didn't use them, pureed carrots hurt not as much but I jolly well had to eat something so I ate them. Everyday they hurt less.

I'm troubled because I did this over spring break and now I've got school on monday and work on tuesday. Better get my freakin' act together fast!!When i got overwhelmed this week my OCD went nuts, then acidophilous maybe helped it, so I was wondering if others had OCD. For a very freakin long time now I've known my OCD isn't in my head, I don't even have obsessions, just cleaness (not orderliness, nothing insane, I don't care if the apartments clean, just what I touch.. when my hands need to be clean) and I have compulsions. I have PTSD, but I've had that for almost my whole life, but only a few years of OCD. I know Chinese medicine says liver problems can cause OCD, that has been a guide for me. Plus, orthomolecular nutrition says Histadelia can cause it. Calcium/l-methionine supplementation helped me SO MUCH over the years, clearly I had (still have to some extent I think) Histadelia. I've been blaming my Histadelia on my liver (I think I read something about that), and blaming my inability to recover from it despite intervention on my stomach interfering with my liver. So --- I learned to search the archives today! I am OVERJOYED to see that people have been curing their OCD with SCD. However, I am also daunted - now I have a new challenge, and something else to work through/watch/figure out. Bloating is not so intimidating, it's there or it isn't. Playing games with my real real real bad OCD could be worse than playing with fire. It's gotten me to the point of suicide more than once. The past 24 hours have been a bitch, and I have not slept.

I'm trying to get more info. The archives mentioned GAPS. I've never heard of it before. I'm familiar with pecanbread.com and the brain/gut autism connection, and their protocols. I tried to get info on gaps, there's like 200 msgs in the archives (too many to sort through I tried 20+ after going through 53 OCDs....), and I'm having real trouble parsing their website on no sleep.

Any info anyone could give me would be great. I guess these means I should def not do cow dairy? can I do goat? Should I go throw out the DCCC?Can anyone help me figure out if there is anything special I should be doing with my intro in light of my OCD and GAPS? or transitioning off intro? If I get my head  together later some other day I'll take a gander at their website again, do they know what they are talking about? Can I trust what they say? Should I get the book? Any help would help. I'm highly questioning a lot of their different approach diversions because pecanbread isn't the same, but isn't pecanbread the autism / brain/gut experts?

I tried a banana today. well, yesterday, I haven't slept. It's nice to have potassium back in my life (real nice!) but made me a little hazy. not as bad as 6 days ago, but not what I would like. The ulcer tolerated it as well as the carrots. the bloating appeared unchanged, although it made me feel like I was swelling a little. Actually, I'm wondering if that was a contributing factor to my bad OCD breakdown last night. Well, I don't have much to eat or much time to bandy about. Should I tolerate these kinds of things like I was tolerated the pureed carrot ulcer pain that ended up getting better everyday? Bueller?

Thanks everybody,Best wishes to all