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Subclinical thyroid levels might cause mental health problems
An article about subclinical thyroid levels, and how they might cause long-term depression and anxiety in some people...
For Some, Psychiatric Trouble May Start in Thyroid:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/h...tric-troubles-may-begin-with-the-thyroid.html
The article describes how some people with long-term depression and/or anxiety can be helped when prescribed thyroxine because they have subclinically low thyroid levels.
This is very interesting for me personally because after I became ill with ME my thyroid levels became clinically low. And since being treated with thyroxine, my life-long depression has improved remarkably. It might just be a coincidence, or it might be because of my fluctuating endocrine levels, or a long-term auto-immune disorder with symptoms that have shifted, but whatever the reason - it's interesting.
An article about subclinical thyroid levels, and how they might cause long-term depression and anxiety in some people...
For Some, Psychiatric Trouble May Start in Thyroid:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/h...tric-troubles-may-begin-with-the-thyroid.html
The article describes how some people with long-term depression and/or anxiety can be helped when prescribed thyroxine because they have subclinically low thyroid levels.
This is very interesting for me personally because after I became ill with ME my thyroid levels became clinically low. And since being treated with thyroxine, my life-long depression has improved remarkably. It might just be a coincidence, or it might be because of my fluctuating endocrine levels, or a long-term auto-immune disorder with symptoms that have shifted, but whatever the reason - it's interesting.