Posted by SLS on April 19, 2018, at 17:07:24
In reply to Re: Lyme disease - a neuropsychiatric disease, posted by bleauberry on April 19, 2018, at 12:24:09
> 9 of 10 lyme patients have psychiatric symptoms!
Citations?
Even if 10 of 10 Lyme patients have psychiatric symptoms, that would still represent less than 1% of the general population. Only 1.135% of people with depression would have Lyme Disease with your numbers. That is still quite high, but not high enough to suggest that everyone with depression be treated for it.
How about suggesting a specific first-line treatment for Lyme to resolve depression. You don't have to guarantee anything. Don't be afraid to be direct and concise. That would be very helpful to me since focus and concentration while reading are difficult for me.
Thanks.
The actual rate of depression among Lyme cases, in my estimation, is probably no higher than 26% given the overdiagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder*. This would bring down the cases of Lyme among depressed patients to 0.295% = 1 in 338. This number is still pretty high. However, if we had 338 people with depression currently posting on Psycho-Babble, only 1 would require treatment for Lyme. We don't have 338 people posting on Psycho-Babble. If the numbers are off, they are not off by that much. They suggest that it is unlikely that even 1 person here has Lyme. It is important to take into consideration that the incidence of Lyme Disease varies greatly regionally, and that the population of Psycho-Babble is waited heavily towards treatment resistant depression.
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7943444
USA:
Population = 325,000,000
Depression = 10% = 32,500,000
Lyme incidence = 369,000
Lyme with depression = 26%
Depression with Lyme = 0.295%
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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