It can give you gastrointestinal issues.
Your bathroom habits and your mental health have a direct impact on one another, too. Of course, not everyone with digestive health issues is also depressed, but the mental health condition does account for many patients’ GI problems, thanks to the brain-gut connection.
In a 2011 study published in Gastroenterology and Hepatology: from Bed to Bench, researchers gave constipated patients two different psychiatric disorder screenings and found that about 27 percent of those surveyed were suffering from depression.
