Microblog: 7 to 8M 14–24 Year Olds Suffered from Anxiety, Depression or Suicide Ideation

DOES MENTAL HEALTH & DIET HAVE A CONNECTION?

YES.

🤕I used to suffer from severe depression and anxiety. There were days that getting out of bad was excruciatingly difficult. It didn’t matter how many commitments and promises I made the night before.

🌑You don’t understand if you’ve never been in that dark place.

🌱I was also plant-based for 12 years, thinking I was doing the best service for my health.

⚠️Never once, when I got administered to the psych ward for a mental breakdown, did they ask about my diet.

⚠️Never once did the dietitians in the intensive eating disorder facility say that plant-based diets aren’t ideal. And I was in there for 10 hours a day.

⚠️Never once did my drug-prescribing psychiatrist recommend dietary changes.

❌They honored requests for eating plant-based but they wouldn’t allow low-carb. THAT was considered disordered eating.

🦄There’s a lot wrong with the model but I loved that in those facilities, most of the time was focused on healing and getting-to-know-yourself therapies.