The Effects of Chronic Inflammation on Depression

If you have an autoimmune disorder and it's an autoimmune disorder that causes chronic inflammation, then you are way more likely to be diagnosed with depression. They have done autopsies on people who have died by suicide that have also shown elevated levels of neuro inflammation. One is straightforward as well, the inflammation is messing with some of your pathways that produce things like happiness and pleasure. Another kind of more roundabout one says that this chronic inflammation is triggering a sweeter cluster of behaviors called sickness behaviors.