Anger, Rage, Obsession, and Impulsion: Why People Think Lyme Disease is a Factor in the Luigi Mangione Case

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The Luigi Mangione case has garnered significant attention in recent weeks, with many people speculating about the potential factors that may have contributed to his behavior. One theory that has emerged is the possibility that Lyme disease played a role in his actions. But what is the basis for this claim, and is there any … Read more

Borreliosis (Lyme Disease) and its known involvement in Mental Health

Scientists and physicians across the world have discovered that the growing numbers of people with mental illness and diseases of the nervous system are being cured or improved by treatment with antibiotics. In other words, it is now known that bacteria can make you mentally ill as well as physically ill!

From Croatia to California, from Sweden to Sicily, conditions such as Schizophrenia and Multiple Sclerosis, even Alzheimer’s disease and Stroke, are being found to have common to all one of the most insidiously infective bacteria on the planet, namely Borrelia.

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The Role of Infections in Mental Illness

by Frank Strick, Clinical Research Director

THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS

(The Research Institute for Infectious Mental Illness is no longer open.).

In considering an infectious etiology to any chronic mental illness there are at least four categories to consider. First are those infections already recognized to induce psychiatric symptoms. These include pneumonia, urinary tract infection, sepsis, malaria, Legionnaire’s disease, syphilis, typhoid, diphtheria, HIV, rheumatic fever and herpes. (Ref: Chuang)

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