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It's such a difficult one isn't it! For me i didn't think my IBS was a mind thing because i don't feel that i'm a particularly stressed or anxious person. However, my therapist pointed out to me that my mind may think that it isn't stressed yet my body thinks it is and/or vice versa. So, actually the difficulty can be in our ability to percieve stress or anxiety. Just thought i'd chuck that one there! Personally, i think she raised a very interesting point.

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This is ABSOLUTELY true. I get nervous or anxious in social situations, and always have. However, when I got married last year, for some strange reason I didn't feel stressed or anxious. I was very well organized, everything was going as smoothly as it could, and overall I thought I was remarkably calm for a bride! But the morning of my wedding, I had the WORST D EVER. I was in the hotel restaurant eating breakfast with my mom, my sister, and my best friend, and I went to the bathroom no less than four times. It was AWFUL. And on my wedding day, of ALL days!!! Thank GOD it cleared up by the time we left to get our hair done, but it just goes to show how much internal stress I was feeling, even though I wasn't really feeling it on the outside.

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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!



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