"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ"

[keep-itreal]

is this true?

[TommyGriffin]

Simon would of died already.

[shlver]

Depends on the germ and your genes and immune system, but in general, yes.
Here is a recent review on inflammation and immune response in individuals with symptoms of depression
http://www.nature.com/nri/journal/v16/n1/full/nri.2015.5.html

Moreover, individuals at high risk of developing depression (for example, those who have experienced early-life trauma) show increased inflammatory responses to such laboratory stressors compared with low-risk individuals. Furthermore, the greater the inflammatory response to a psychosocial stressor, the more probable the subject is to develop depression over the ensuing months. Two questions immediately present themselves: why should a stimulus devoid of any pathogen induce an inflammatory response, and why should this response promote the development of depression?

[Zach LaVine]

Souls are not real.