Posted by bluedog on April 22, 2003, at 23:15:56
In reply to Re: Where has the Hoovermeister went? » medlib, posted by Larry Hoover on April 20, 2003, at 22:35:29
> > Before SARs, viral pneumonia used to be called "walking around pneumonia", implying that it is less severe than the bacterial kind. In my book, though, not being able to breathe is damned scary, whatever the cause. Depression is bad enough; it seems particularly unfair that it predisposes us to so many other ailments, as well.
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> Yes, not being able to get a good breath is a scary thing. How do you suppose that depression might predispose one to e.g. pneumonia?
>Larry
My theory is that depression due to it's inherent stressful effect on your whole system simply weakens your entire immune system.
The way I interpreted Medlib's post is that depressives are not specifically predisposed to pneumonia but are simply predisposed generally to picking up any nasty infectious illnesses that are floating about out "there" due to their weakened immune systems.
Would you agree with this theory Larry?? and...
Medlib..is this what you meant????
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bluedog
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