so far being in lisbon has involved wildly vacillating between feeling sort of okay about myself vs. feeling enormous spikes of anxiety, paralysis, shame depending on whether i am with people or not, what i ate that day, the temperature, how well i slept, hours of screentime
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i can't do several of the things i was depending on for grounding back in the states (very specific magnesium supplement, access to a car to go somewhere to process) and others my habits have been disrupted (stretching, walking) and that's been quite bad it turns out
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i sincerely have no idea what's going on. it feels like death by a thousand cuts but i could believe it's mostly the food. people say switching from US to european food makes you lose weight and i think losing weight sometimes causes spikes of anxiety and depression?
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also it's been much harder for me to avoid some of my food triggers here. gluten is common, garlic and onion are common, i think i taste seed oils in some stuff, it's a mess. i haven't found a single nearby restaurant that's definitely safe except the acai bowl place
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i really really do not like this, it makes me feel weak and fragile and sick. i don't at all enjoy having to be so careful around food, it's just a constant source of stress and i literally do not ever get a break from it, i literally have to think about food every day
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the nutrition guy i was talking to recommended some stuff to me but all of it seems to involve 1-2 weeks of adjusting to what he thinks is bacterial die-off and i stopped doing it because it was literally making me feel suicidal which is apparently a thing that can do
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plus i don't understand the extent to which negative feelings towards food could itself be exacerbating this whole thing so i'm not even sure it's *safe to be upset about this* which is a whole other level of insanity
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would appreciate your thoughts on what might be going on here actually, i could really use the help
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how many meals do you eat a day? A few years ago I dropped breakfast for convenience (and intermittent fasting, via nerdfitness: nerdfitness.com/blog/a-beginne)
Made my lunch an easy/healthy/fatty veggie omelette.
Now I only have to think about/plan dinners.
Might be stress-reducing
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Almost same but I'm really thankful that food selection mostly solves my problems, though inconvenient. Food is huge factor for me in physical and mental well-being, I know exactly what you're talking about. Those who don't understand don't have same inflammatory response.
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