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by nextos 3738 days ago
Have you checked your thyroid? There's a potential causal link between hypothyroidism and depression.
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Not sure why you're being downvoted (other than perhaps playing internet doctor). One of the first things a competent medical professional will do is to evaluate where you're at, which includes checking thyroid levels. That said, don't listen to internet doctors; go see a real one and let them do their job... which will likely include the aforementioned check.
Depression is in fact a well-known symptom of an underactive thyroid [1].

Bear in mind that the reference range doctors use to determine whether your thyroid is healthy is considered too wide by some experts [2] - this will result in false negatives.

The treatment for thyroid disease and resultant thyroid underactivity is (synthetic) replacement thyroid hormone. I'd rather take a replacement hormone than a pharmaceutical drug with its side-effects. Not to mention hypothyroidism is a risk factor for heart disease and more, so better to address it than treat individual symptoms.

[1] http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-topics/en...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16148345