The Abcs of Diseases

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Emotional issues and depression can be caused by many different kinds of negative experiences and traumas, that includes other illnesses.

In Selena Gomez' case, her emotional health issues run parallel to her struggles with her ailments due to Lupus, chemotherapy, kidney failure and then the organ transplant.

All of these play a domino effect that give us a glimse into how diseases work. Not only normal every day situations, diseases can be understood as "one thing leads to another."

It takes strength to go through disease states and being able to cope along way. For complicated medical situations like this, sometimes, one might lose count of doctor appointments, lab work, therapies, and other daily self care routine. At times, one can be on the edge of mental exhaustion. If our body can take the pain, our spirit does get a hit.

Timeline in Selena Gomez's current illnesses.

• In 2015, she shared that she was battling lupus and undergoing chemotherapy to treat it. This disease led to kidney damage.
• Summer 2016, she announced via an Instagram post that she had to have a kidney transplant as a result of the disease.
• September 2017, she had a kidney transplant.

The emotional breakdowns seem to occur not randomly but rather in frequent cycles. Gomez had been checking in to rehab once or more times every 2 years.

She went for treatment at Arizona’s Dawn at the Meadows facility in 2014, checked into a Tennessee facility in 2016, and early this year, stayed at luxury facility Privé-Swiss and again this month. 

According to TMZ, the 26-year-old singer went to the hospital twice in the past couple of weeks. She was admitted to the East Coast psychiatric facility and will continue with dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Therapeutic regimes in such programs include meditation, life coaching, fitness and spa treatments, nutrition coaching and art therapy

Lupus affects roughly 1.5 million people in the US and has no cure. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that required chemotherapy. Read more