Autoimmune disease can attack the brain, cause psychiatric symptoms
It’s so frustrating that the story is actually “new“. We’ve known about neuropsychiatric lupus for decades yet for people like me with disabling mood disorders to get to see a rheumatologist is nearly impossible.<p>I have bipolar disorder or schizoaffective type and I am also in the initial stages of ankylosing spondylitis and consistent leukopenia, they think it’s a coincidence but I know it’s a mitochondrial disorder. (Complex I and III deficiency)<p>We’ve gone nowhere in Treatment of  mood disorders in over 70 years. My last episode of depression that landing in the hospital. What did they have to offer me? Electro shock treatment. No new tests, nothing.