From Pills to Plants: The Role of Nutrition in Mental Health and Addiction Recovery

[@tanyahale1186]

I am blown away by your story. You will help many by sharing this so transparently. Thank you!

[@cindilacasa3291]

What a powerful story!! Thank you so much for sharing. Made me deeply feel so much!!!

[@lianelindsey1407]

Hey! I’m glad that you are alive!

[@LaLayla99]

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[@guillermob.irizarrydiazphd5]

Oh, my God! What a powerful message! Thank you! Thank you!

[@courag1]

One of the best and healing videos I’ve ever watched. Explains addiction so much. Rejection by the world is not so dire a thing as hearing that rejection by your family. But the WFPB diet makes ones body more resilient and therefore the mind, is housed in the body. This has to help. Plus it actually feels good to want to do good things for myself. Do I know rejection? Oh, yes! And healing is not just something which happens once and I am done with it, it is with me, I just don’t have to agree with it. It was my mother, the chief cause of my distress. Yes, I loved her, and though I can understand she was not fully functional herself, she did both good and destructive things to me. Even though she is dead now for many years, I actually took care of her in her later life. I would not tolerate her calling her own grandchildren my pet name: “Defective”. She didn’t like the color of one of our son’s hair. I told her, whatever color his hair is, is fine by me and it is only a color, get over it. My brother was also her victim, he killed himself. So I know a lot about growing up in a toxic situation. My sister, the oldest, her one and only favorite, ironically died even worse than my mother: both died of breast cancer. My dad, Casper Milquetoast personified, died of Alzheimer’s. I am now 69 and retired. It has given me time to sort things out and understand as I was sick as I grew up, nutritional deficiencies as my mother did not know how to cook and we lived in a house that had lead pipes and I grew up having daily enemas with that water, stone cold. It hurt. I had to drink a lot of milk, but I have dairy intolerance. What I did not throw up, constipated me, hence the enemas. But lead… one of the side effects for some people is stuttering and hyperhidrosis and I got both. So in between my bouts of vomiting I had to eat the same portions as my brother and sister who were much older than me. So I was also fat. To say that this presentation dotted the “i’s” and crossed the “t’s” for me is an understatement. I just did not get addicted to drugs and my weight didn’t go up as high. I came to the WFPB diet ten years ago and finally ditched the physical symptoms of the dairy intolerance. It eventually put me in a wheelchair with arthritis. I am no longer crippled. And my hands are functional again. I’ve done a lot of recovering at different portions of my life, but the most lasting ones since going Plant-Based. No one outside of ourselves can in the end fix us, it is something we have to have the courage to do ourselves and each one of us, is worth it!

[@mw...]

geez, you were the worst Jew in Texas! great story of recovery. thank you for sharing it

[@randyhollier]

Hey man im going to be up front with you i know you're hurting and you look a bit tired. Its okay to quit and you dont have to beat yourself over it just learn to relax and let it all out

[@tamstastylife8149]

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