I saw this and I’m thinking it’s part of the immune response and inflammation hypothesis.
I wouldn’t think so. It could be that someone who is sexually promiscuous enough to get repeated yeast infections tends to be psychologically unstable.
There isn’t a single cause for mental illness…
That’s like equating a heart attack and it’s causes to cancer…
I also know a lot of mentally healthy/undiagnosed people who are very sexually active.
We’re raised to try and ■■■■ everything… It’s what makes a real winner… I think it’s dumb as hell and quite disgusting and destructive of the potential heights that sexual exchanges can mean.
I’ll add though… if anyone truly commits to someone regardless of their sexual history… they’re automatically bumped back up to that height. It almost means more for someone who can get laid on any given night to throw in the towel for monogamy, in my mind, than someone who struggles in such matters and wants to settle down with the first person they get a chance with.
I think about this crap waayyyyyy too much. and this is totally off topic at this point. 
I don’t understand why all of these studies don’t examine the many aspects of correlation instead of instantly proposing causation.
Yeast infections are not always STIs and this article does not even show that this yeast came from sex. According to the article, the yeast is present in every body and babies get thrush because of the same yeast. Notably, there is no direct link between the fungus and mental illness, according to the article.
I am so tired of all these correlations being written up as causation.
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That’s not how women get yeast infections. It’s usually a combination of poor self-care/hygiene and a diet high in sugar. You don’t catch yeast infections from other people.
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I’m glad that It’s got everyone talking!
I still think that could be part but not the whole picture.
Part of some sort of immune response triggering some of the psychosis spectrum disorders.
As for thrush I think it was concentrating mainly on men getting it from a woman through sexual contact.
I guess this isn’t the most common way to get thrush?
This article is really poorly written. First, yeast infections are not an STD. Second, the article even clearly states no link has been found between yeast infections and mental illness. This is sensationalist garbage intended for readers who only glance at a headline without reading thoroughly.
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From a more scientifically respected source.
Thank you. That article clearly states there is no cause-and-effect relationship.
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I’m currently fighting off mental images of people with loaves of bread growing out of their crotches. Ick.
It also just makes one mention of sexual transmission at the end of a long list of possible causes, rather than isolating and trumpeting that unlikely cause in the title, thus suggesting mental illness is caused by promiscuity.
Candidiasis is a very common side effect of antibiotics. The whole slant of the article creeps me out.
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I, of course, mistook the slanty article for the study…