What are the emotional effects of lyme disease?

Many effects: Lyme disease is often called the great imitator, as it can imitate most any disease. Borrelia bacteria can infect the nervous system and thus cause anxiety, depression and even psychosis.Even if it does not infect the brain, the fatigue & pain of lyme can cause great emotional distress & many lyme patients feel isolated & unsupported. See www.Lymeinfo.Net/neuropsych.Html for much more information.

I agree w' Dr Baker: In children I have seen sudden bursts of emotional, ; or, behavioral problems in a previously well behaved child with no other precipitating factors (no family problems, social issues, learning issues, illnesses or deaths in the family). Since i live in ct where lyme is common, i usually recommend that the child be tested for lyme.