I'm a carnivore diet cheerleader here - I've gotten so many benefits that I feel obligated to tell my stacker friends all about it. I even tried to make the title kind of click-baity, so you would read it. And here's another benefit.

In addition to the huge boost in energy I've experienced, and the massive overall improvement in mood (much more optimistic, positive, open and outgoing), there's another thing I've noticed since my 4 plus months of carnivore.

I used to have an issue with chewing the insides of my cheeks. It looks strange, it's just another of the nervous OCD habits that people have, like nail biting. It's kind of weird, and makes you seem stressed and anxious. Probably because you ARE stressed and anxious. I had this habit for multiple decades. Before, I was able to stop doing it for months at a time, with a lot of tiresome effort and strategies such as logging every time I did it, constantly chewing gum, wearing a mouth guard, things like that.

But I always slipped back into doing it. The urge just gradually came back.

After about 2 months of eating carnivore, though, I had an epiphany. I...had just stopped. The impulse to chew the inside of my cheeks just went away.

I thought it was too good to be true, but it's 4 months now, and it doesn't seem like it's coming back. And here's the interesting thing - I'm not having to implement all kinds of mental tricks and hacks to prevent myself from doing it. It just isn't something I want to do anymore.

I had a conversation with someone a few weeks ago, he wasn't carnivore but was eating ketovore (mostly carnivore with some low carb veggies). He had suffered from depression for multiple decades. He had also been taking all kinds of depression medications that didn't help him that much, and caused him to gain lots of weight.

About 5 years ago, in order to lose weight, he started eating keto. And as the weight came off, he realized after a few months...he was no longer depressed.

I told this guy about my healing from the habit of cheek chewing. And he showed me his outstretched hand, palm down. Nice fingernails. He ALSO had a habit, similar to mine, of chewing his fingernails, for decades. He said he hadn't cut his nails for decades. And then a few months after starting a keto diet...he had to cut his fingernails. Because he wasn't chewing them down anymore.

Isn't that amazing? This is just one of the issues that a carnivore (or low-carb/keto) diet can heal.

Look up some videos online on carnivore and OCD. You'll never see them in mainstream media, but lots have people have these kinds of stories to tell. Meat heals.

Here's some of my older posts on my journey with the carnivore diet, or WOE (Way Of Eating) as some people call it.

I also saw somebody else posting about being "in a dark place" mentally. My sympathies. Maybe you want to consider trying the carnivore or keto diet.