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Hypothyroidism a cause of Anxiety Symptoms
While many Dr.s don't acknowledge this fact, hypothyroidism does cause anxiety symptoms. Many medical research articles confirm this. I personally have anxiety symptoms when my dose of thyroid hormone is too low. I can't explain why this is the case but I suspect it is similar to how the body produces more adrenaline when a person has hypoglycemia (low glucose). It's the body's way of compensating and trying to kick-start more production of hormones that become low in the body.
Here's one quote from Dr. Richard Hall, a PhD medical researcher and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry University of Florida, Gainesville who has done so for different medical groups including Johns Hopkins University:
"In a study of patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, anxiety was a prominent initial symptom at the time that the condition was diagnosed." LINK> http://www.drrichardhall.com/anxiety.htm
Other things that can cause anxiety symptoms would be glucose imbalances and sex/adrenal hormone imbalances. Some hypothyroid patients do develop anxiety disorders from thyroid disease and there are research studies stating this as well.
My Related Article>> Are There Effective Natural Anxiety Treatments?
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Article Comment -"Antidepressants, Sometimes Right And Sometimes Wrong"
I think some people see an article like this and believe it is "anti" emotional drug treatment propaganda but it is nothing of the sort. It is simply pointing out what you stated in your post above, that using these drugs for the convenience of forfeiting proper diagnosis is inexcusable behavior by doctors who do so.
Ruling out possible underlying disease processes that can easily cause emotional symptoms, is a simple as a stroke-of-the-pen by the Dr., in ordering tests to rule out or diagnose diseases. Lots of diseases have potential to cause both anxiety and depression and is why it's so important that patients are not sluffed-off by doctors because some of these diseases can have a serious course if not diagnosed and treated as early as possible.
In regard to CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome), emotions can be a part of its symptom complex but the illness is a distinct entity of itself. The severe fatigue and muscle joint pain and weakness, goes far beyond the type of vague to moderate fatigue found in emotional disorders. Other symptoms of CFS are not found in emotional disorders at all including; multiple chemical sensitivities, orthostatic/postural hypotension (dizzy upon standing), swollen lymph nodes in the neck and other parts of the body, low cortisol levels (adrenal fatigue) etc...
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