Lyme Can Masquerade as Mental Illness — Think Schizophrenia, Bipolar, OCD & More

Most people think of Lyme disease as a joint or fatigue issue, but it can go much deeper than that. When the bacteria that causes Lyme gets into the nervous system, it can affect both the brain and the body. That’s when people may start noticing things like brain fog, mood swings, anxiety, or even psychiatric symptoms that look like depression, OCD, bipolar, or schizophrenia.

In some cases, these symptoms show up just weeks after infection; in others, they don’t appear until months or even years later. Lyme bacteria are sneaky... they can hide from the immune system and sometimes resist short courses of antibiotics, which is why symptoms can flare up, calm down, and then come back again.

Because Lyme can show up in so many different ways, it’s important for mental health professionals (and really anyone dealing with unexplained psychiatric or neurological symptoms) to keep possible infections on the radar,

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