How Depression Harms Your Health

Beyond taking a severe negative toll on your social life and mental health, suffering from depression can affect physically in a variety of ways. With depression, existing risk for heart conditions can be seriously exacerbated and lead to heart attacks and even death. Your immune system can also be compromised by the prolonged presence of stress hormones in your body. Change in appetite, sleeping patterns, blood pressure, and increased headaches as well as backaches can all come along with depression. While depression is never healthy, there are even more harmful side effects that are important to recognize and fight back against.

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