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Ocd, Anxiety, And Celiac?

Ksmith

By Ksmith
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Hi,

Does anyone know the link, if any, between OCD/anxiety disorders and celiac disease? If anyone has any articles on this topic, I would be so grateful if you'd post them. Thanks!

~K

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mart Contributor
mart
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Hi K. Yes, OCD has been linked to celiac disease. Both my children have it. I don't have any website links to offer you, but you might google it and find them. I know I've seen it out there.

Ksmith Contributor
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Thanks for the reply Mart. I have already conducted searches on the internet, but I couldn't find much. I have celiac, and my sister and my father have anxiety disorders (as did I before going gluten-free)--as well as possibly, OCD (as diagnosed by a doctor). I just wanted to send them some info. so that they'd go in and get tested or at least try a gluten-free diet. I just want them to feel better, ya know! :) Thanks so much!

~K

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I don't really have any info, but I wanted to share that going gluten-free has really helped my anxiety and OCD issues.

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Guhlia
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It's really helped my anxiety and OCD issues as well. I still suffer from both, but both are definitely lessened when I remain strictly gluten free and both definitely return when I get accidentally glutened.

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Me too!

mart Contributor
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K, here is a link. Open Original Shared Link. I'll look for more in the meantime.

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Ksmith Contributor
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K, here is a link. <a href="Open Original Shared Link disease%20and%20Other%20Issues&coded_category_id=2" target="external ugc nofollow">Open Original Shared Link I'll look for more in the meantime.

Thanks so much!

flagbabyds Collaborator
flagbabyds
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wow i'm OCD, eyt you wouldn't know it looking at my room, me and my oldest sister are very OCD, i wonder what it would be like without the gluten-free diet.

mart Contributor
mart
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wow i'm OCD, eyt you wouldn't know it looking at my room, me and my oldest sister are very OCD, i wonder what it would be like without the gluten-free diet.

:lol: same with my kids

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I have all three myself. I've found websites saying that malabsorbtion of nutrients could have created the neurological illnesses. I think that's only part of the answer though. I've tried to come up with my own possible connections and have been looking at "excitotoxins" like the glutamate, cysteine, and aspartate that can mess with the protective blood-brain-barrier and certain areas of the brain. Open Original Shared Link. Also, a general listing of Open Original Shared Link.

Hope that helps

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Thanks so much everyone for your help!

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