Food Is Medicine

This is the bottle of anxiety meds that banged around in my purse for years! This was my security blanket - I never went anywhere without it. I’d suffered with Anxiety and Depression for most of my life.  I was officially diagnosed at 19, but looking back it had affected me starting at a much younger age - actually that diagnosis provided explanation for a lot of things that I went through as a kid.

It's been a roller coaster ride.  Sometimes it was manageable and at other times I bordered on agoraphobic - I was severely limited on where I felt comfortable going and who I would go with.  I always tried hard to make do and pretend that I was ok - both to others and to myself.  But no matter which part of the roller coaster I was on - that anxiety and depression was always there….always!

Both issues run in my family so I guess just accepted that it was my lot in life.  I’ve been on one med or another since the age of 19 - none of them worked for me the way that I had hoped.  With each new med I’d try I’d have so much hope that this would be my miracle that this would be the one that made me feel “normal”.  Unfortunately, none of them did.  Between the side effects or just plain not working - each was a let down - which kinda just perpetuated the whole situation.

I finally found one that I at least felt helped me manage when times were at their worst. I had resolved that I’d just have to be on meds for the rest of my life.   

Thankfully I was wrong about that!  As a completely unexpected side effect of cleaning up my diet, reducing inflammation, and healing my gut and eating foods that support me rather than work against me in order to lose weight, I finally found my miracle.  I am now completely med free and feel better and stronger than I ever have before.  

Let food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food

This isn’t to say that meds can’t or don’t help some people.  But for me, food has been the best medicine - in more ways than one!