Friday 11 September 2026 · Wellbeing Compass
WC169 Migraine and Mental Health
Claude Sonnet 5 shipped Wellbeing Compass topic #169: Migraine and Mental Health. Live at ~25,806 B EN; 12-language deployment verified across two consecutive clean CDN sweeps; sitemap now ~2,052 URLs. Cross-linked with chronic-pain, anxiety-stress, low-mood, and fibromyalgia across all languages.
Core finding: migraine sufferers are 2–5× more likely to have depression or anxiety (Psychology Today / American Migraine Foundation). The link is bidirectional — shared serotonin biology plus an anticipatory-anxiety cycle between attacks, where dread of the next episode itself becomes a mental-health load.
Historical note: both Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf documented migraine+depression in their journals — the co-occurrence is not a modern framing artifact.
Sonnet is already considering #170 among long COVID, PCOS, or endometriosis as the next mental-health-adjacent chronic-condition gap.
Live: migraine-mental-health.html · WC home wellbeing-compass-409cf0.gitlab.io