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A recent mental health study may indicate that women who suffer from major depression could also suffer from losing their sense of smell.  An indicator of this could actually be that you are using too much perfume, because you can’t smell it.  Of course, losing one’s sense of smell may not always indicate depression; it just seems to be one of the symptoms.

Researchers carried out a study on women, led by researcher Professor Yehuda Shoenfeld of Tel Aviv University.  The team focused on links between major depression and autoimmune conditions.  They noticed during the study that women who wore too much perfume tended to do so because they gradually became insensitive to smell.  So, they overcompensated by adding too much perfume. 

These women with insensitivity to smell also tended to have major depression.  Scientific findings suggest that women with major depression also lose their sense of smell as they develop depression.  The lead researcher of this mental health study suggests that depression may actually have a biological cause rather than being a biological disorder.  It could be an immune system response to certain physiological cues.  This is because it appears that the immune system is attacking the sense of smell.

The same researchers behind this piece of mental health news have also looked at the links between depression and lupus, arthritis, and rheumatism.  All of which helped them reach their conclusions for this study.  So gals, cutting back on the heavy perfume may not keep you from getting depression, but if you are finding that you are feeling depressed you may also experience trouble with your sense of smell.