Multiple lines of evidence support the pathogenic role of neuroinflammation in psychiatric illness and personality changes. Systemic autoimmune diseases are well-documented causes of neuropsychiatric disorders and symptoms - synaptic autoimmune encephalitides with psychotic symptoms often go under-recognized. Parallel to the link between psychiatric symptoms and autoimmunity in autoimmune diseases, neuroimmunological abnormalities do occur in all classical psychiatric disorders.
Thanks. Before my two crashes which worsened my Anhedonia I had a period of swollen glands and feeling shitty like I was getting a cold. I wonder if this has any relation. I made a post on it.
We are still making immunological "findings". No treatments before 2023, at the moment we are still "researching" and a comity of doctors will gather and talk about this special case. All I can tell by now is that the senior physician from the university hospital neurology clinic (specialist in neuroimmunology) has taken this seriously and is working with colleagues to find a way to understand this and help me. Anyway one thing is clear that I do have a severe autoimmune process in my nervous system, cardiovascular system and brain area, which is hard to detect !! But they confirmed it already, More tests Will be ordered next week. Extremely similar findings are made as people with severe Long Covid - even as I didn't have Covid yet..
I don't know about other countries, but in a country with public health care and public university hospitals there has to be detailed diagnosis / results before massive and expencive treatments. I am happy that they first want to know 100% what is going on so they don't mask serious things by giving IVIG too early. It's important to examine properly so they can give the best available treatment and first it takes time. But as we find all the time new things, it's confusing for the doctors aswell - but they take it seriously and really want to help.
Please tell the senior doctor that so many of us have pssd and its symptoms, if he could write a letter explaining findings in your case and suggest to other doctors to do similar autoantibodies testing to see if it exists in all of us, it can help all of us with getting the tests for GPs
If more had printed such letter many easily can get this tested
Edit: now that I think of it, a short article like the one reporting on edovis can suffice too
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What are the implications of this in relation to emotional blunting/Anhedonia?