Re: Mold a link to depression

[Guest guest]

Thanks MLMJ75@,this is important research, glad to see it.

thankfully it doesn't male people insane.

I think most of us would agree that the symptom of depression induced

by mold toxins itself goes away when you get out of that moldy

invironment,

I wish however,that they would incorperate multiple chemical

intolerance into this study.

while it is important to understand the difference in haveing

depression symptoms during exposure, brain responce, and depression

caused by constant severe pain(back,sinus,stomach,liver,kidney,ect.)

caused by the toxin exposure and the depression caused by just the

situation you are in that different people handle differently.

whay I have noticed with MCS/MCI is that not only mold toxins but

also other toxins can cause a range of different emotional responces.

I've been trying to get family to understand this for a while now,

because

I need them to understand that if my mood changes instantly it

related to something I'm being exposed to and I cant control it.

when you get misdiagnosed with PTSD thats really TBI/roxic

encephalopathy(cant ever remember how thats spelled?) and MCS/MCI it

makes it a little hard for family to understand.

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> Molding a Link to Depression

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> The physical consequences of living in a damp, moldy house are

well

> documented and include increased asthma attacks and other

respiratory ailments,

> headaches, fatigue, and sore throats. People who live in moldy

environments may

> also have more depression, finds a study of 5,882 adults living in

2,982

> households, published in the October 2007 issue of the American

Journal of Public

> Health.

> The connection between mold and mental health surprised even the

lead

> author, epidemiologist Edmond Shenassa of Brown University, who was

skeptical of

> the mold†" depression link suggested by smaller studies. " We

thought that once we

> statistically accounted for physical factors like crowding and

psychological

> aspects like not having control over one's living environment, then

the

> association between mold and depression would vanish, " he says. But

rather than

> debunking the notion, Shenassa found an association between mold

toxins and

> depression.

[Guest guest]

Thank you for posting this. I think that cerebral hypoperfusion and

inhibition of protein synthesis

might be two mechanisms by which mold could cause depression.

Also, excitotoxic mechanisms, reduced hippocampal neurogenesis,

inflammation, triggering of autoimmune reactions, other forms of

neurotoxicity.

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>Molding a Link to Depression

>By Carol Potera

>Nov 16, 2007 - 7:22:12 PM

>

>

>The physical consequences of living in a damp,

>moldy house are well documented and include

>increased asthma attacks and other respiratory

>ailments, headaches, fatigue, and sore throats.

>People who live in moldy environments may also

>have more depression, finds a study of 5,882

>adults living in 2,982 households, published in

>the October 2007 issue of the American Journal of

>Public Health.

>