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When you can't tell if your lab results reflect stress or disease

My inflammatory markers are elevated but I can't tell if it's from the stress of my divorce or something actually wrong with my body, and I hate that I can't separate the two.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind-body connection complicates the interpretation of physical symptoms, blurring the line between emotional and medical causation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Laboratory tests and reading your results?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.