Hypothyroid link to type D personality

[lauriegraham]

Interesting research. Anyone have thoughts on mechanisms as it seems quite chicken and egg to me neurosciencenews.com/type-d...

[Fruitandnutcase]

It does smack of ‘chicken or egg’ doesn’t it.

I imagine it is more likely that not being taken seriously enough, not being believed by your doctor, being told you need to move more and eat less to lose weight, not being on the correct meds and all the other unhelpful things thyroid patients have to put up with would be enough to give even Pollyanna a type D personality after a while.

If doctors are now going to turn round and blame it all on you having a type D personality then what hope is there?

[Brightness14]

H have two sisters who both had hypo including me. We couldn't be more different. Me living in the real world, my other sister everything in the garden is always rosy. My other sister a live wire type and adventurer. However, I know that Blood type can make a difference to the heart etc. Fact not Fiction.

[greygoose]

Well, that's just one huge get-out clause for incompetant doctors and ignorance, isn't it! I doesn't appear to take into consideration what this disease does to you. How many times do we have to explain that we're not ill because we're depressed, we're depressed because we are ill!

[lauriegraham]

I agree with all the comments . ..and it's shocking how docs etc don't take thyroid issues serioousy. BUT . I do think there are often links between early trauma, neglect and stress and hypothyroidism. As well as cell danger response (Naviaux) .. eg early trauma can lead to a closing down of energy systems. Linked too many mental health presentatioons .. multifactorial,?

[asidist in reply to lauriegraham]

I agree, Laurie. Hypothyroidism undoubtedly causes increased anxiety and depression and mood issues, even “treated” — considering what the medical community deems “treated” isn’t actually adequate treatment for many people with the condition. Most research will use that term simply to mean TSH (and maybe FT4) was brought into range, without consideration of FT3 or patient-perception of symptom resolution (granted the latter would be subjective and hard to scientifically define), and thus invariably the conclusions will be somewhat skewed.

That said, as you say and from what i remember reading years ago, I think stress/trauma (alongside viruses and toxins etc) is a known possible environmental trigger that can contribute to development of Hashimoto’s if genetically predisposed. Especially if it’s accompanied by lack of sleep and other things that directly impact the body’s functioning. Definitely seen in my own life a pattern of my hypothyroidism worsening/going haywire after very stressful and impactful life events. So wouldn’t be surprised if there was a greater incidence of what they describe as type d personality among the hypothyroid population, though I find classification of that as a personality type offensive and dismissive.

Ps Gabor Maté talks about how trauma can lead to chronic illness and how healing from it can help heal from the illness as well. I think there’s some good evidence now for the science behind that kind of thing, trauma or complex trauma essentially being stress, sometimes prolonged/chronic

[lauriegraham in reply to asidist]

Absolutely agree, Thanks

[asidist in reply to lauriegraham]

Don’t know if you’ve seen it but just noticed there’s another thread on the same study! healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...?