Suicide Prevention: I Want Other Families To Know What Ours Didn’t – Huffington Post Canada

Chronic Health Conditions, Inflammation And Major Depressive Disorder
Imagine living with asthma (inflammatory disorder) and anaphylaxis (autoimmune disorder) almost from the time you were born. Then imagine growing up and your parents have absolutely no understanding of chronic health conditions and the connection between early life stressful experiences, and the association to Major Depressive Disorder.

The deck was stacked against our son from the day he was born — we just didn’t know it.

As young parents we educated ourselves about our son’s health conditions. We learned about asthma medications and how to avoid specific foods that would cause an anaphylactic reaction. What we didn’t understand was the implication of early life stress and how stress elevates inflammation in the body which is evident in depression.

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