Depression and Its Effects on Your Body

People with depression are statistically four times more likely to have a heart attack than people who consider themselves to be generally happy. A feeling of helplessness appear to not only to weaken our immune system, but it has been shown that it may also have symptoms which are also physical in nature.
Many of these signs are very similar to symptoms seen in diseases which are known to have an identifiable physical cause. These physical symptoms of depression include aches and pains, weight loss, constipation, tiredness, loss of appetite, loss of sexual drive as well as others.

Beyond that, there’s a lot we need to learn about how depressed state of mind affects the body-what we know now is that it does affect it profoundly.