Stress can throw off your cycle, your thyroid, your mood, your blood sugar, your cholesterol. It increases your cancer risk, and makes it harder to lose weight.

Depression can mean moving through your day, completing tasks, fulfilling responsibilities, but having trouble smiling or finding joy. It may mean using all the energy you have just to get up in the morning and face another day.

If your thyroid is under-functioning you get a diagnosis of hypothyroid. And you receive a prescription for hormone replacement, usually Levothyroxine, Synthroid, or a generic. Problem solved, end of story. Right?