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Originally Posted by Z
I'm not sure how this can be true for every instance of depression - why would your immune system suffer from inflammation after you've received bad news, for example? Someone finds out their entire family died in an accident, loses their job and their partner leaves them all in a short space of time: they become depressed but there's no reason for the immune system to have a response to these events, is there? Or is this article saying that anything upsetting is going to cause your immune system to have a reaction?
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I wouldn't class grieving as depression, as there's a process that is worked through and the cause is obvious.
Whereas depression has no pattern, rhyme, reason or obvious cause in many cases.
I do actually believe that it's a response to bacterial overload and that's what causes the inflammation dealing with the dieback of the pollutants in the blood, either that or the live bacterial/parasitic invasion is affecting mood and or behaviour in some way.