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Posted by jhj on December 9, 2010, at 0:20:11
Hi
I was diangosed with Dysthymia, GAD, Social Phobia, Avoidant Personality Disoder in 2004 though i have had those problems ever since my early childhood.I have persistant problem of upset stomach, Acidity and Indigestion which have not responded to Antacids and PPIs.
My memory is terrible and i forget things very easily and also i have some problems in learning new things.
I wanted to ask whether Anxiey and Depression have caused stomach and memory problems in andybody else?
Thanks
Jatin
Posted by Phillipa on December 9, 2010, at 10:26:49
In reply to Upset Stomach, Poor Memory: part of Depression?, posted by jhj on December 9, 2010, at 0:20:11
Irritable bowel syndrome since a teen and I sometimes remember everything and then sometimes cant. Wonder what that means? Phillipa
Posted by Keith Talent on December 9, 2010, at 23:54:55
In reply to Upset Stomach, Poor Memory: part of Depression?, posted by jhj on December 9, 2010, at 0:20:11
No experience personally of stomach problems but it's well known that physicians often misdiagnose depression as dementia in the elderly and vice versa.
Posted by Hombre on December 10, 2010, at 5:42:57
In reply to Re: Upset Stomach, Poor Memory: part of Depression?, posted by Keith Talent on December 9, 2010, at 23:54:55
According to Chinese medical theory, depression usually involves liver stagnation. This could mean that the liver is weak and/or overloaded with stress hormones, and cannot deactivate them fast enough.
The common result of liver stagnation is that it attacks digestion, which is why you shouldn't eat when you're upset. I don't enough about the liver's role in digestion, or role in influencing the gall bladder, but there could very well be a connection.
Once your digestion goes bad, you won't be extracting as much nutrition and energy from your food. The brain is a hungry organ, and if your blood sugar levels are fluctuating (definitely a connection with liver, which creates glycogen from surplus glucose, and breaks it back down when needed, often triggered by stress hormones), your memory and learning will suffer.
Stress in general shunts blood away from the organs of digestion as a short term measure to prepare for action. Chronic stress will cause this to happen too often, and your digestion will surely suffer. Again, once digestion weakens, a whole host of other problems can start to develop. Good digestion and elimination are so key to good health and energy.
Posted by bleauberry on December 10, 2010, at 17:33:50
In reply to Upset Stomach, Poor Memory: part of Depression?, posted by jhj on December 9, 2010, at 0:20:11
The stomach stuff is, in my opinion, something other than your mood problems. But both perhaps connected to the same source. I know from my own personal experience that a low cortisol situation makes for a lousy feeling stomach.
Two strategies would be:
1. If your doctor hasn't been able to display the detective expertise to figure it out, find another one who will.
2. Hombre has excellent guidance....learn about medicine from the Eastern side of the world. It is not necessarily better or worse than Western medicine, just different. So when Western fails, Eastern opens up a whole new approach. They've been doing it a whole lot longer than we have.
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