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Don’ t confuse somatic symptoms with depression in early Lyme disease

Patients with early Lyme disease appeared to be depressed when evaluated with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) tool, according to a study by Wormser and colleagues, published in the American Journal of Medicine. [1] But after antibiotic treatment, the patients’ BDI-II scores returned to normal, leading the authors to conclude that these patients, in fact, did not suffer from depression.