Rebecca Hazelwood is a writer who puts off writing until she can stand it no longer. She loves poetry. She teaches college freshmen how to write and tries to survive graduate school. She takes a lot of gratuitous pictures of herself. Her past lives (which are never really in the past) include interests in photojournalism, French language and culture, and religious studies. She is native to Kentucky, but she has lived in Missouri and France. Now she lives in Georgia.

She also collaborates on Structure and Style, a new poetry blog.

A Gut Check for Many Ailments (via blxnblcks)

This explains a lot.

Posted at 12:11am and tagged with: depression, gastrointestinal issues, anxiety,.

Many people with psychiatric and brain conditions also report gastrointestinal issues. New research indicates problems in the gut may cause problems in the brain, just as a mental ailment, such as anxiety, can upset the stomach.

Stanford’s Dr. Pasricha and colleagues examined this question in the lab by irritating the stomachs of newborn rats. By the time the animals were eight to 10 weeks old, the physical disturbance had healed, but these animals displayed more depressed and anxious behaviors, such as giving up more quickly in a swimming task, than rats whose stomachs weren’t irritated.
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  3. smashley said: does this explain the link between celiac and anxiety/depression?
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