For decades, doctors blamed anxiety — it was Crohn’s disease - The West Volusia Beacon

For decades, doctors blamed anxiety — it was Crohn’s disease - The West Volusia Beacon

For decades, Matthew Willem was told the vomiting, stomach pain and crushing exhaustion were caused by anxiety — or worse, by laziness. He began to believe it. “When you hear that all the time that you’re just lazy … you start to kind of think, like, am I lazy?” Willem said. Now 46 and living in DeBary with his wife […] The post For decades, doctors blamed anxiety — it was Crohn’s disease first appeared on The West Volusia Beacon.