The Relationship Between Depression and Physical Health Issues

Depression has a tendency to mess about with your immune system, making you more susceptible to illness. When I'm depressed, potato chips and diet coke are my food of choice. So all of those things, even if there's no causal link between depression and a physical health issue, a cold, the flu, et cetera, depression makes you not take care of yourself. It leads to other problems. Yes, absolutely. We may not understand perfectly how we get from A to B, but it doesn't takes really a rocket scientist to figure out that this is true.