My bloodwork explained a year of feeling unlike myself
I spent a better part of last year feeling genuinely low, snapping at people I love for no real reason and losing interest in things that used to make me happy and just assuming it was anxiety or burnout or something I needed to talk through.
I talked through it a lot and things would get slightly better and then slide back and I couldn't figure out why nothing was fully sticking. My doctor ran basic bloods and said everything looked fine and I kept going because the numbers didn't show anything alarming. After a while I just wanted to dig deeper on my own so I ordered a more detailed panel through goodlabs. My vitamin D came back critically low, my ferritin was on the floor and my testosterone was at the bottom of the range for my age. All three of those things can independently tank your mood and your motivation and your ability to feel like yourself and I had all three going on at once without anyone ever thinking to check.
I'm a few months into addressing all of it and the baseline is so much better than it was, still working through things but I feel like I'm making progress now in a way I wasn't before. The thing that stays with me is how long I spent thinking it was all in my head when part of it was just in my blood the whole time. Did anyone else find something physical underneath it all after a long time of assuming it was purely mental??