Crohn's and colitis tied to anxiety disorders

I couldn't open the link, but thanks for posting. I certainly hope this isn't the case though. My wife battles anxiety from time to time, and I would hate for my Daughter to ever end up with it. She seems to be more like me in that regard, so hope it stays that way.

I don't think anxiety causes it necessarily, more like a trigger for it, I grew up in a very very stressful environment and continued through my life living under immense stress and anxiety myself with making some poor choices, but many people do and still don't get an IBD as a result of it.

Since I also ended up with IBS (14 years into being sick with crohn's) which is food and/or stress driven (for myself we found mine is stress driven) I really never had a hope in this hell....I'm also lactose intolerant, I was pretty much bound to be stuck on a toilet with my track record of bowel issues.

Even the article mentions;

"Although this study found an association between people with an inflammatory bowel disease and the likelihood of an anxiety disorder, it wasn't designed to prove a cause-and-effect relationship between these conditions."