My story with chronic fatigue

My goal was to study psychology to help people and in the process solving my recurring low mood and anhedonia. However, after four years of studying, getting a Bachelor of Science majoring in Psychology and a Master in novel therapies for Psychiatric Disorders I was left with the same old bouts of depression. Moreover, whilst studying I had felt worse and worse to the point of having developed chronic fatigue.

To my surprise despite trying multiple types of talk therapy and eating what is considered to be a healthy diet with a lot of whole grains, fruit and veg…

I kept getting worse.

I ended up mostly bedridden after university at 23 and had to stop studying because I was so incapacitated. Brain fog, joint pain, and an incredible amount of fatigue ruled my life. I was sleeping 10 hours per night and needed to lie down in a dark space for most of the day. I had lost the capacity to take care of my space and of myself, and had to move back home with my family for help. In the midst of that fog and darkness, I started desperately researching for an answer. It took me a full year to figure out what was happening to me, as multiple Doctors could not help me. I was told it was psychosomatic, that I must be sleeping too much, I was even told that I was perfectly healthy whilst I could not get out of bed, hold up a conversation or think.

Finally, I started encountering stories of the power of ancestral nutrition. I stumbled upon stories of remission of disorders that I had been taught were chronic. Schizophrenia, Arthritis, Bipolar disorder, Chronic Fatigue, Major Depression all being put in remission through diet. I was stunned.

I started following an evolutionarily consistent diet and slowly but surely, I got my life back. The fatigue lifted, and so did the depression, the joint pain and all of the other symptoms that had me feeling like a prisoner inside of my own body.

After years spent scavenging the scientific research to try and explain what I had experienced, I went back to studying in order to become a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner to help lift others out of the hell I had been in. I cannot really say that I chose Nutrition because I truly feel that it chose me. It saved me and now I feel compelled to share.

I am so incredibly thankful for all that pain if it now means that I get to help others get out of that suffering any sooner that I did.