Psychiatric disorders are not only mentally exhausting to manage. Depression and anxiety, for example, also weigh heavily on the physical level, making it difficult to perform everyday activities easily and often making one feel truly exhausted. It is not just an impression: mental illnesses, in fact, have important organic repercussions related to neuroendocrine alterations that can interfere with many basic physiological functions, such as appetite, sleep, muscle tone, inflammatory and immune response, etc.
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Mental illness, what a struggle
