Posted by bleauberry on January 2, 2011, at 7:12:32
In reply to Depression Can Cause Physical Pain Also, posted by Phillipa on December 31, 2010, at 19:46:08
Personally I don't think depression causes pain. Certainly they commonly do come together. Whatever is causing the depression is also causing the pain. Something else is doing both. Both are symptoms of something else, not actual diseases themselves. This is of course backwards from the way most people accept the entire premise and hypothesis (nothing proven, no replicable facts) of depression.
For example if there is some genetic insult, biological flaw, infectious disease, or toxic disease, maybe production of endorphins or norepinephrine are limited. And thus depression, and thus pain.
What makes the whole issue cloudy is that patients, doctors, and researchers spend nearly zero time on the disease part of things...they are only looking at the end result symptoms as if a cause of them doesn't exist. Weird.
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