Impact of Mold on Thoughts, Emotion, & Personality
How Mold Affects the Body
We know that mold affects health. Mold exposure can cause sickness, allergy symptoms, blurred vision, nausea, etc etc.
But did you know, that by being exposed to mold, your emotional and cognitive sides are also affected?
According to James Schaller, M.D., CMR and Gary Rosen, PhD, CIE, in there book Mold Illness and Mold Remediation Made Simple, Mold chemicals can affect cognition, emotions, and personality!
They’ve made a list of all the different affects mold can have :
Mold Affects Emotions, Cognition, & Personality
- mood swings
- mania
- irritability
- impulsivity
- increased risk taking
- decreased speech smoothness
- poor stress coping
- increased verbal fighting
- lateness
- poor empathy
- poor boundary awareness
- immaturity
- spacey
- rigidity
- poor insight
- decreased productivity
- unable to process trauma or pain
- increased narcissism
- forgetfulness
- poorly or obsessively organized
- dead creativity
- depression
- anxiety
- panic attacks
- decreased attention
- eccentric personality
- delay in child develpment
- increased drug or alcohol consumption
Mold Illness
Of course mold is not the only cause of these mental issues, but it can be a direct source as well as worsen the prognosis further.
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Joslyn from the MoldBlogger Team
Source: Schaller, James and Rosen, Gary. “Mold Illness and Mold Remediation Made Simple.” 30.
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Other than not being able to breathe, which no one, not even emergency, cared about, panic attacks and anxiety were my first symptoms of the huge fungal infection growing in my chest, courtesy of the moldy Cedar Hills Rec Center in Beaverton, Oregon. When my nephew started having panic attacks after moving into a new duplex, I said mold. It was in the bathroom walls, and they got out of there before he got really sick. Sadly, due to lousy laws, the lousy landlord painted over it and rented to the next victim. And the rec center is still moldy and still infecting people. Nice, huh?
Veronica on March 26th, 2009