I am not at all sure how these things work, and I do accept that trauma and stress can exacerbate IBS (that was what triggered my IBS in the first place) but what I found is that if I eat according to the FODMAP guidelines (see Syl's signature) cutting out lactose and fructose and severely limiting fructans, polyols etc AND I am careful about my meals only having a 20% overall fat intake AND I only ever eat permitted IF-food (-no wholegrains apart from oatmeal) with a SF supplement/ food that is scientifically proven to have resistant starch/ more SF than IF, ie cooled rice, pasta and potato/ green-yellow bananas (white bread does not really work as a SF base from a scientific point of view), no matter what I was going through psychologically/emotionally etc I did not have pain or D.
You do have to be disciplined and have to cook entirely for yourself, have to look out for getting all vitamins and antioxidants, as I only eat a maximum of 25 types of food, no more. (Syl may eat even less) But I function as though I didn't have IBS. (almost, as I do have bloating, but no pain, no D). it's not convenient esp to start with cos you can't eat out and so on, but you can still eat healthily and I for one never minded the lack of variety in terms of what I eat. and as I said there is no D or pain.
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Susie, born in 1985,
(pseudo-)D and bloating April 2007-December 2010, now stable
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