Tuğçe Seven

I spent $12,000 on therapy over 2 years trying to fix my anger before someone checked my blood Was snapping at my girlfriend over nothing. Road rage every commute. Constant irritability that I'd mask all day at work and then explode the second I got home. Therapist said it was unprocessed childhood trauma. We spent 2 years unpacking my relationship with my father Here's what was actually happening in my body: my gut was leaking endotoxin into my bloodstream which was keeping my immune system in a permanent inflammatory state. Chronic inflammation elevates cortisol. Elevated cortisol burns through magnesium. Low magnesium destroys GABA production. Without GABA your nervous system has no brake pedal I didn't have an anger problem. I had no neurological ability to regulate a stress response because my inhibitory system was running on empty Nobody tested this. Not my therapist. Not my doctor. Not the psychiatrist who suggested I "might benefit from an SSRI to take the edge off" 3 practitioners. 2 years. $12,000+. Zero blood draws Fixed my gut. Restored magnesium and zinc. GABA came back online. The rage disappeared in weeks. Not managed. Not suppressed. Gone. Because the thing causing it was gone I think about those 2 years of therapy sessions analyzing my childhood while my body was on fire and nobody thought to check. Talking about my father while my cortisol was 3x baseline because my intestinal lining had holes in it The mental health industry is billing $280 billion a year in the US. Almost none of it starts with blood work If you're doing everything right psychologically and still can't control your reactions, you might not have a mind problem. You might have an inflammation problem that no one in the room is trained to find