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I have an odd question for you guys! Can anxiety and depression make certain illnesses worse? Like allergies, colds, and flus? If it does, how does it do so? from artsyfartsykittycat

psych2go:

yeah that’s possible! Anxiety and depression also have physical effects, and in that way they can lower your immune resistance. so you can be more prone to your allergies and colds and flus etc. 

I’ll try to give you one example for anxiety: anxiety puts your body in a kind of fight-or-flight mode, which uses up a lot of ‘energy’ or resources and it might jus that case there is less energy left over to go to fighting things like the flu. 


jumpingjacktrash:

wellamarke:

Today my seven year old cousin said, in reference to the subject of pirates:

“It’s one of my distant likes. I still really like it when it comes up.”

And I just had to record it somewhere because I think it’s such a wise and simple way of expressing an important concept. Sometimes I feel like I’m neglecting an interest if I don’t do anything about it for a long period of time, like I can’t really say I like it if I don’t keep it up, but no, it’s just… it’s a distant like. That’s its own thing now.

She gets philosophical when in fancy dress, apparently.

i like this term. your small relation is very wise.