Does anxiety affect your immune system?

[Mondie]

I just wondered as I have never been so ill the last few months I have had:

Really bad cold and cough
UTI
Swollen glands

Feel like I'm falling apart!

[nomorepanic]

I don't think it does as such but when you are run down you tend to pick more illnesses up.

[lauren6]

Absolutely it does. The studies show that stress causes about 95% of illnesses. People get viruses...cold sores on their mouth, any type of herpes for example a day after a really stressful moment and that moment can be literally a moment. Stress has been linked to cancer as well. Whoever came up with the word disease got it right on target...dis-ease. I have noticed that the really relaxed people I know rarely get sick.