How do I think about anything else? I feel my brain has been cooked by this diagnosis.
Recently made a post about brain fogginess/vitamin deficiency, and a comment got me thinking about the mental toll this disease takes on us:
"Is it possible that the mental load of learning to manage celiac disease is simply using up your brain’s capacity for learning? I know when I found out it was a lot to learn and it took up a lot of my mental energy."
I still think some of my lingering fogginess (going on 2y since GF/dx) is due to low vitamin levels, but I really spent/spend so much time on google, on my phone, reading etc. about celiac. ESPECIALLY right after diagnosis, for a few months I had so much health anxiety - afraid of other possibilities that come alongside celiac (other diseases). Celiac really blindsided me.
Anyways, now I feel it hard to continue language lessons I was taking, I've forgotten some other things I'd learned over the past 2 years, and I feel like I just zone out all the time - hard for me to focus on conversations. Very forgetful. This is new since going gluten free, which has really freaked me out.
Will I ever feel normal? Lol......