I think when people aren’t mentally well they can neglect their nutrition, and maybe there’s some confusion between cause and effect. I’m not sure that a poor diet could cause general mental health issues but a good diet can support self care and resilience generally.

However there might be some conditions which are affected by nutrition, a couple of times in my life I’ve experienced my anxiety rising and seemingly unconnected found out I was anaemic. Apparently anxiety is one of the symptoms of anaemia. I’m not sure it’s definitely aggravated mine but certainly it makes me wonder. I do seem to have settled on the iron supplement.

I would’ve said I had a reasonably good diet btw, but obviously not as well balanced as I hoped.