<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Dear List, I have been thinking about the psychological results of having a longterm undiagnosed nutrition-related illness that affects your health, such as celiac. Specifically, I was considering episodes in childhood where I experienced moments of anxiety or school phobia, and others where I felt as if many ordinary endeavours were too much trouble. As someone who was undiagnosed until adulthood, I wonder how many of our enduring concepts about our own personalities are based on physical and cognitive symptoms stemming from being deficient in many nutrients? I find now that if I allow my B12 to get low, I can experience anxiety attacks, but I have learned since diagnosis that I am not necessarily an 'anxious' person although I thought so as a child. I have also learned that if I am 'too tired' to do something it may be more about nutrition than perhaps laziness/lack of ambition etc. Have other people had to rethink basic self-concepts once they became GF? I find for myself that a lot of negative self-concepts have changed since I can attribute them at least in part to nutritional deficiencies. Hoepfully this is another positive aspect of getting a diagnosis that may be the flip side of whatever people find is negative in getting this as a lifelong condition to be dealt with. Thanks, Lissy