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Can anxiety/depression cause respiratory depression? especially in hot weather or shower?
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No: Respiratory depression means a physiologically decreased impulse to breathe. This most often happens with sedating medications, or when someone is very ill or has been injured -- and is comatose. Anxiety/depression should not cause this, but overdoses on some of the medications used for anxiety/depression, might.
Answered 12/9/2013
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