Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and depression

Can Multiple Chemical Sensitivity cause depression? Could it affect your mood? Find out how Multiple Chemical Sensitivity can affect your mood.

Posted Apr 12, 2018 by needinfo&help 1500

Depression can result from life circumstances that prevent one being able to avoid exposures and not having a normal quality of life.

Posted Jan 6, 2019 by Cindi 3050

Of course I get depressed. I'm always in pain, often unable to eat. Can't go out. Can't have people round. None of this is good for positive mental health.

Posted Apr 1, 2019 by Susan 2500

MCS can cause sever depression

Posted Apr 9, 2019 by MCSzombie 6220

Depression is inevitable when you are isolated. The worst is worrying about how you'll pay your rent or mortgage, heat, electricity. How you'll buy groceries. Stressful, lonely depression is what we live every day.

Posted Jun 4, 2019 by Heather 3000

Multiple chemical sensitivity can indeed either cause or exacerbate the symptoms of depression. The isolation it puts on the person suffering with it is difficult to deal with. Many people lose their support systems because they can't be around people due to the triggers contained in fragrances, new buildings, and even in the environment itself. If you don't have good coping mechanisms and a strong support system, it can feel like you're all alone. having to limit your interaction with other people, where you go, how long you can stay, and those kind of things can be extremely frustrating and cause depression to increase or intensify.

Posted Jul 21, 2019 by Trisha 1350

Yes, MCS can cause manic depression to manifest, psychosis is common so is suicidal thoughts, self harming as your condition makes you analytical of yourself, as it progresses and becomes more debilitating, reclusiveness and isolation can become a major factor

Posted Aug 22, 2019 by Carmen Rosemarie 2550

ISOLATION is the hardest and most mood altering thing to deal with.

Posted Nov 18, 2019 by Angie P. 5000

Toxic chemical exposure can cause depression and many other neurological issues--MCS patients can be more vulnerable to this cause-effect relationship.

Posted Dec 12, 2019 by Joanna 6200

DEFINATELY! I have been close to suicide, times where I have been so down I do not want to get out of bed and times when I was so angry I just wanted to smash something. What is the hardest is the fact that NOBODY understand the illness because it is not a seen as a disablitity because you not in a chair or missing a arm. This disablity is not seen by the eye and not understand by the public. People try to understand but the only way to make them see is to let them live with you and not be able to go anywhere or use any products locally purchased. In a 3rd world country the medical industry do not even understand. You feel isolated, angry and most of all frustrated

Posted Jan 30, 2020 by Noeleen 2500

The isolation can become lonely.
The way I look in public with a respirator makes me feel very different and "othered."
I become frustrated when I can't communicate with my respirator mask on or when I would like to do something but I can't obtain a reasonable accommodation -- and this ongoing frustration leads to depression.
Social engagements have become more complicated...until COVID-19 that is. Now everyone has to isolate like me and my depression related to that has improved some. Now I don't have to watch everyone else living a life I can't as parties, weddings, funerals, etc are discouraged.

#JusticeByDeadlyVirus LOL

Posted Sep 27, 2020 by Rebecca St. Martin 3570

Yes, depression is common due to.isolation

Posted Jul 24, 2021 by Serenity 2500

Yes, MCS can cause or worsen depression. Having a chronic illness that has little awareness and has very limited accommodations available (such as fragrance-free healthcare establishments and fragrance-free, healthy housing) is extremely stressful. Having to live a limited life because of other people's toxic chemical choices is lonely, isolating, and demeaning.

Posted Nov 11, 2021 by kola05 2620