Lyme Disease and Depression

Lyme Disease, and other tick-borne illnesses, have been associated with a host of medical problems, including mood changes. Patients whose symptoms do not resolve may develop chronic persistent symptoms. Diagnosis and treatment has historically been challenging and patients are left feeling helpless and often desperate for relief. Noted mental changes, after exposure and persistence of symptoms, have included depression, suicidal ideation, mania, psychosis, obsessive compulsive disease and diminished cognition. (For more information, please see this peer reviewed article, Lyme Borreliosis and Associations With Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study.)

Dr. Balfour and the Tick-borne disease experts at Columbia University, in New York, attempt to help those suffering from such illnesses. The experts at Columbia University continue to conduct various clinical research studies, aimed at treating those afflicted by post-Lyme infection illnesses. If interested, please click here to learn more about treatment and participation in clinical trials at the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.