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Do you have chronic anxiety? || Do you have stomach problems (like IBS, constipation/diarrhea, etc.)?

yes | yes
26.8%
yes | no
16.2%
no | yes
9.6%
no | no
47.3%

4,083 votesFinal results

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what on earth

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⋆₊⁺⋆ boi of moon ⋆⁺₊⋆

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What is surprising?

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strength of comorbidity # people with stomach problems # of people with anxiety

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i strongly suspect that anxiety is caused by bad gut im about to eat some poop from a person with 0 anxiety and a gut made out of steel im doing it for the steel gut but im curious to see if it'll also reduce my anxiety

4:15 AM · Oct 30, 2021

⋆₊⁺⋆ boi of moon ⋆⁺₊⋆

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In all cases or in just your case?

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not sure? I strongly suspect it in my case and then sorta by proxy suspect it in others

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E…eat the poo?

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I thought you had to boof the poop

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Garrett James Black

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Gonna be candid I have offered my stools to people before for precisely this reason. Was it weird? Yes. Would it have worked? Maybe.

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Pirkka-Joose Sempé 28 5'3''

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Wat

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Julia M. Rosedale

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In my experience it typically goes the other direction, though I could def see this being a mechanism as well. No chronic issues, but during periods of more acute anxiety/stress, without changing diet at all, gut goes to crap.

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Thanks for taking one for the team. Please keep us posted with the results.

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Pavlos Papageorgiou

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Direction of causality? Both?

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I agree with your first point but man there’s gotta be a better way

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