A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry

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Have you tried without gluten as well? It seems like a possible cause too, what did you test for in the blood test?

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We checked a whole range of things. Not just food, but also deficiencies, hormones, diabetes. For food intolerance they have a general blood test here, that checks a few things. Can’t remember.

We suspect non-celiac gluten sensitivity. By diet. No gluten/soy/egg/diary was an improvement above only dairyfree. I feel dairy is the main culprit though…that gives an immediate response to small amounts.

Some social changes too though, lately…going low contact with family lessened the stress…so hard to know what is what.

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Wtf you can’t even eat soy? How are you going to get calcium then? So your gluten antibodies are high?

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I had two blood tests. It showed diary intolerance. And one showed egg intolerance. The other did not. :woman_shrugging: I have no celiac.

Psychosis seems to be most related to non-celiac gluten sensitivity though. That does not show on the same blood test. We tested it by elimination/reintroduction. And it seems to help to be glutenfree. Though less spectaculary than dairy.

The soy, I do not know. I hardly eat it anyway. I despaired about a decade of unexplained GI trouble and emotional trouble. And kicked some major things out of my diet shortly. That helped. But not sure it was the soy… this was never tested with blood draw.

Docs aren’t the most helpful with diet.

I haven’t been careful with the calcium…maybe should eat some more greens and beans.

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Several autoimmune disorders can cause psychosis. I’m surprised that the doctors haven’t checked any of the autoimmune markers in her blood.

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Edited to say Addison’s disease is an autoimmune disorder.

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There’s always a chance of the antibodies attacking the brain too, which can happen in lesions for MS, brain involvement in Lupus, and severe hypothyroidism in Hashimoto’s.

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Sharing a post of a news article that I’m disappointed/upset about:

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I am going to move this to our current discussion that has a link to a news article.

Welcome to the community!

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Hello. Food intolerance is an allergic reaction of the body. Allergy itself is an inflammatory process. the body accepts the product as hostile. If the body is constantly in this state, then this can cause deviations. because the immune system is constantly under stress. Perhaps you did not know, but mold is very detrimental to health. if you stay in contact with her for a long time, then the risk of mental rostroyst increases significantly. A lot of factors affect the psyche.

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