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ELI5: Why does anxiety liquify your bowels

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Anxiety is interpreted as a PHYSICAL danger by the body, like being chased by a predator that wants to eat you. Even though you're not in any danger, your body is still kicking into survival mode and switching to flight or fight. Part of that is turning off non essential functions like digestion and diverting power to muscles and parts of your brain that are processing visual and audio information. You can go a day without eating and be fine but if you're muscles aren't working at maximum you might not survive the next 5 minutes is what your body is thinking. Anxiety doesn't last minutes though, it's often hours or longer and your digestive system is running on low power that whole time. So your not processing your food correctly or completely and you get as you described. 💩