How did I cope? I didn't, hahahahaah. I didn't know what it was for two years. They actually put me on antidepressants for nine months, which was a mistake because those symptoms disappeared while the physical ones still remained. The diet I ate actually worked after around eleven months, but it put me in a precarious position that soon went all downhill after a chinese meal. I tend to go more towards the high fat thing since there is still talk about high protein diets being detrimental to the kidneys. This however, means over a long, long time, which you normally don't do with this diet. You'd have to eat a lot too to have a bad effect, probably around 200g a day. I eat around 80-100g, but most of my diet is all fat, especially olive oil. Before I knew what I had I would eat one to two handfulls of sunflower seeds almost every half hour. It did seem to help. My symptoms were all over the place. I would obsess I was going to hurt someone, rob a bank, get really depressed, cry a lot, shake, have these flu-like symptoms where it felt like my temperature was sky-high even though it read totally normal. I used to get the floaty feelings too but also mild delusions and my personal favorite, depersonalization/derealization, which is where you feel like you're living in a dream world and nothing is real. That's a fun one, let me tell you.
