Posted by jhj on August 27, 2007, at 3:34:46
In reply to Re: Stomach Acid and Anger » jhj, posted by Quintal on August 26, 2007, at 5:50:32
I have faced this problem since my childhood so i have some idea about the realtion between mental illness and stomach acidity.The sequence happend like that.
First,when i was around 10,i stared to develop social anxiety.That time i did not have any problem with stomach.Gradually that anxiety began to trouble me in other situations too and i developed GAD.During that phase,i started to have some problems with acidity and stomach pain.After that i plunged into depression gradually and after that my stomach acidity was giving me lots of problems.I was always in bad mood and irritable due to depression but,due to this somatic problem of stomach acid and pain i became even more peevish.So,First the mental problems lead to excess stomach acidity and due to these mental problems person is angry or irritable anyway. add to that,the physical problems,which worsens the mood and makes person more peevish.If any PPI be it omeprazole,lansoprazole,rabeprazole or pentoprazole successfully suppress the excess secretion of acid then,person feels physically much batter and hence,he remains irritable and angry only due to mental reasons and physical cause is taken out of equation.That is probably why you felt better after taking lansoprazole because it got rid of physical problem which was increasing anger.Lansoprazole or any PPI does not act as antidepressant at all but the second reason given by you is partially true.Improvement in your somatic problem due to lansoprazole's success in suppressing acid generation made your mood better then before and less peevish.That has not happened in my case unfortunately because no proton pump inhibitor is able to reduce my acidity.
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