Another question on herxing. Depression anyone?

[lismom]

Chronic illness or part of recovery. This is so hard to see as a mom. Plus being a teenager doesn't help with all the hormones. Thinking that first try to help with the illness and then see whats left. Makes sense? Kathy

[MichaelTampa]

I don't know your whole story, but lyme can cause any variety of neurological and psychological symptoms, depression is definitely a symptom for some. I think in most cases, yes, the thing to do is to treat the lyme and then see what symptoms fix themselves. Of course, the depression could be from another cause, but you'll find out with treatment.

 

The other side of that is, sometimes the symptoms are so bad that they do need treatment by themselves while one works on fixing the lyme. It depends on how bad the symptom is. For example, if the heart is not working well enough, or the person is having seizures, or even severe depression to the point where suicide is a risk, then, even if the cause may be lyme, you need to do what you can in the meantime.