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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
I am not religious and not familiar with the Catholic lent, but I am well familiar with the Eastern Orthodox lent, which is an extremely complex, multi-stage undertaking. I will describe it in a nutshell, and maybe some ideas would sound appealing and/or meaningful to you.
Eastern Orthodox Christian Lent is not a switch on / switch off undertaking. First, it follows a huge feast that marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. That feast comes from an ancient Pagan holiday which was subsumed by Christianity.
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I am Greek Orthodox. Since Great Lent began last Monday (3 March) I have been following the fast, which is basically vegan plus invertebrate seafood (no fish). We Orthodox do not decide to give "something" up for Lent. Keeping the fast is more than sufficient. For me, not having cheese and yoghurt and ice cream and eggs is certainly difficult.
I don't understand how any of this will "help with diagnosis". Have you not yet been diagnosed?