When your mental health is poor and you are fatigued, it can be common to struggle to make decisions and concentrate. It can also be difficult to make plans or forward think as your brain is barely coping with getting through the day.

Your gut and your brain are directly connected and it is common to experience both constipation and diarhoea when you are in a state of overwhelm, anxiety or feeling depressed. Blood leaves the digestive system in times of fight or flight, and therefore our digestion becomes compromised. Bloating and IBS are directly linked to emotional wellbeing. This can be why many typical conventional treatments for IBS are not successful.

This can range from insomnia, trouble falling asleep, restlessness and wakes through the night. A feeling of busy brain, constant doom, overthinking or worry. On the other hand, depression can also lead to the opposite with sleeping too much. This can occur when life is too much to cope with and the body retreats to sleep to escape.

Changes in your mental health can directly impact your appetite, resulting in weight loss or weight gain. It is common for people to either loose interest in food and have a lack of appetite during extreme periods of stress or the opposite, finding increased cravings for food which results in binge eating.

Stress and anxiety often lead to tension headaches or migraines. Tension-type headaches cause mild to moderate pain, often described as a band around the head, while migraines result in severe throbbing or pulsing pain, typically on one side of the head and can cause vision impairment.

Difficulties in regulating emotions can lead to extreme feelings of fatigue, regardless of physical activity. Poor quality of sleep, a change in appetite and a constant heavy mental load can result in adrenal fatigue and the body having no energy for normal activities. A lack of energy can affect all aspects of life.