Posted by bleauberry on November 20, 2009, at 4:52:36
In reply to Severity of depression = cognitive impairment, posted by SLS on November 19, 2009, at 7:29:18
Since cognitive impairment...brain fog I call it...is extremely common in CFS, FM, Lyme, candida, hypoadrenalism, heavy metal burden,and other mysterious conditions, and it is almost always teamed up with depression, it does not surprise me that the two go together. They are both extremely common in other diseases besides the cluster of symptoms we call depression.
Absolutely no scientific basis for my comments here, but I think where there is depression without marked cognitive issues, that directs the diagnosis away from a physical disease and toward a brain disease. Where there is marked cognitive impairment, physical causes of both the depression and the impairment must be investigated deeply and creatively at the same time symptomatic treatment is attempted.
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