In the January 2015 edition of Psychotherapy and Psychsomatics, a group of Italian researchers explored whether depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric mood disorders might be early symptoms of medical disorders, as opposed to being “just” psychological symptoms.
Their research showed that depression in particular can be a strong indicator of other forms of illness, finding it “to be the most common affective prodrome [early symptom] of medical disorders and was consistently reported in Cushing’s syndrome, hypothyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, pancreatic and lung cancer, myocardial infarction, Wilson’s disease, and AIDS.”
Read the entire article here: Depressed? Anxious? It Could Be An Early Symptom Of These Illnesses.
Filed under: Cancer, Cushing's, General Health, Rare Diseases | Tagged: AIDS, anxiety, Cushing's Syndrome, depression, hyperparathyroidism, hypothyroidism, lung cancer, mood, myocardial infarction, pancreatic cancer, psychiatric, Wilson’s disease |
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