Sick people have anxiety issues that continue....period.
I would agree with that. Over 20 years ago when I first started having heart issues my levels of anxiety and apprehensiveness were quite significant. It took me a couple years to sort out the whole thing emotionally and not walk around waiting for something to blow.
Logic does not always alleviate worry when it comes to health issues. Matter fact it doesn’t help much at all for most of us.
And in this case there could very well be a physiological basis for it.
For example some pts who had undergone open heart surgery and were placed on a heart lung machine come away with a “pump head” syndrome due to the bypass machine as well as the possibility of anesthesia contributing to it. Same thing with some pts who just get anesthesia.
For example my friend never had anxiety issues..now he does. With covid, as I mentioned, some pts can have a hyper-coagulation state that may cause micro emboli of clot that may migrate to certain areas of the brain. These areas may be areas that can help contribute to potential mental disorders that the OT never had previously. It can be seen as analogous to mini TIA’s.
So if a patient who never had any mental disorders/anxiety BEFORE the illness and now they do that begs the question what caused it?
I come at this due to my background on healthcare as a perfusionist, medical devices for heart support and ECMO, which Covid pts have used greatl, which all entail knowledge of blood coagulation. So I am not speaking from no experience her.