Willow, the brain to stomach reaction in anxiety is immediate. When I get a pang of anxiety, the first thing I do is expel gas. A minute later, I am in the bathroom. One time I had a panic attack in a car because the person driving got lost. When we arrived at the house, my mouth was dry and was too young and at the time not open about my panic attacks.
I went up to this person's bathroom and had such horrible runs that I actually had to get in their tub and wash up, all the while hoping they didn't hear me run the water.
For years after that I was afraid to get into a car, train, anything with no bathroom. When I boarded a plane this year I got scared and was in the bathroom a second later with the runs. This is VERY common with anxiety, even people who don't have anxiety disorder and panic attacks or even IBS.
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