Studies being done on anxiety

[Vonnegutjunky]

http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/09/anxiety-10-new-psychology-studies-you-should-know.php

[InvisibleUnless]

some of those were dumb in their overgeneralizing, like saying anxiety is essentially contrary to empathy, but i wanted to comment specifically on the l-lysine mention.

 

i had anxiety, and severe canker sores in my mouth, for several decades---my entire life until i quit psych meds and withdrew for a while.  dentists and doctors couldnt pin down the cause (of either, but the main point is the canker sores).  suggestions for 'natural' toothpaste or avoiding certain foods or drinks did not fix anything, but on my own i discovered that canker sores are actually quite commonly autoimmune in nature.

 

i began taking an l-lysine complex supplement, as recommended online for people with autoimmune canker sores, and it reduced the occurrences and severity of canker sores quite significantly---basically completely, under most circumstances.  i didnt associate it with anxiety so explicitly, but it increasingly seemed like multiple autoimmune conditions i had which doctors always write off as idiopathic or inexplicable actually have common roots, in their neurological base and the anxiety-of-self that might be the underpinning of that base.

 

working on my anxiety reactions (self-reactions, basically) during withdrawal has led to a lessening of all my autoimmune and possibly-associated conditions (for instance my gatroesophageal reflux disorder), though my biochemistry is sometimes so out of whack from still dealing with the withdrawal that mental calm is not enough to keep everything balanced in terms of physical manifestations.