Posted by bleauberry on November 9, 2009, at 16:10:27
In reply to Chronic Infection May Spawn Depression (Article), posted by southernsky on November 8, 2009, at 16:02:03
Chronic infection and depression? Gee is there an echo in here? Just kidding. I preach that all the time, so much so that people get irritated at me even suggesting the possibility.
Actually, to several thousand or maybe tens of thousands of current and post sufferers of CFS, FM, MS, and Lyme, it is no secret among them that when the cause of the inflammation is gone, or the immune system is rebalanced away from dysfunction towards normalcy, the depression eases away. Sometimes dramatically.
This might appear new, but is actually old news. It's just that the people who should already know it don't, and thus it appears as some new ground breaking discovery. Science is lagging behind what is happening on the clinical frontlines.
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