Depression And Heart Disease

Depression is a serious medical illness. It’s not something that people can just make up in their heads and it’s more than just feeling down for a couple days. Depression is having the feeling of hopelessness and worthlessness for weeks. Eric Wargo author of Understanding the Have-Knots stated that there’s a “close connection between inflammation and both depression and heart disease has led some researchers to theorize that inflammation may be what mediates the two-way street between these two conditions: Depression can lead to heart disease, but heart disease also often leads to depression” (2007 p. 5). There are many medical illnesses such as stroke, a heart attack, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and hormonal disorders can cause depressive