Posted on 09/10/2022 6:38:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Psychological distress, like anxiety and depression, increases people’s chance of experiencing long COVID, a new study from researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows.
The increased risk of long COVID came independently of other risk factors like a history of smoking or asthma. However, psychological distress led to a larger increased risk of long COVID than many physical health risk factors.
[R]esearchers determined that people with distress before a COVID-19 infection had a 32-46% increased risk of long COVID. People with probable anxiety had a 42% increased risk and those with probable depression had a 32% increased risk.
The researchers looked deeper than that and saw that not only are people with psychological distress more likely to develop long COVID, they are also more likely to be impared in their daily lives by it.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
In other words, Long Covid it is all in your head?
Long COVID is either a form of mental illness or vaxx related.
Deep State would far rather blame anything vaxx related on mental illness.
another mental disorder brought to you by our liberal friends.
Lockdowns and vaxxes. No such think as long covid.
Hypochondriacs.
Hypochondriacs milking the government teat.
Long Covid is damaged immune systems unable to fight off minor viruses and parasites.
I didn’t see anything in the article about whether these people are still testing positive for COVID.
Sounds like the impossible to quantify “Chronic Fatigue” syndrome from a couple of decades back.
I don’t think “Long COVID” is COVID at all.
Wrong.
I was never vaxxed.
My lung scan from January of 2020 shows my lungs were clear. The flu was going around my job and my doctor ordered one as a precaution.
After a nasty round of COVID in March, 2020, my lung scans from April showed extensive scarring. Diagnosed Stage I COPD.
By August 2020, I was on two inhalers and steroids. Lung functionality test revealed I was getting worse, not better. Moved me to Stage 3 (emphysema).
My kidneys were shutting down. My adrenals had been depleted.
I went from a healthy working wife and mother who had spent two weeks the summer before walking all over Italy, easily climbing to the tops of the leaning tower of Pisa and Duomo in Florence, to a frail creature that got winded walking 3 blocks. I’m 5’8 and weigh 138 lbs. No co-morbidities.
My lungs slowly recovered back to Stage 1. My kidneys bounced back. They juiced my adrenals with two months of daily estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone; that helped significantly and I was able to keep working.
Now I’m dealing with the latest attack, this time on my digestive system. It shut down for almost 3 weeks. Couldn’t keep food down, couldn’t pass it through, lost 12 lbs. due to vomiting. Have food allergies I never had before.
I’m looking at 10 years left to live. I will never make it to retirement. There was a time when the prognosis was only 4 years and wasn’t expected to survive long enough to see my youngest son graduate high school, so that’s a blessing. I always carried large insurance policies and my will and powers of attorney are done, so my family is provided for once I am gone.
So in short, you are ignorant. I could type what I really feel, but that will probably get me banned.
I had long haul illness due to COVID. When I got COVID I was already vaxxed back in early 2021. Pfizer, two injections. My COVID experience I wouldn’t wish on anyone, with the exception of the editorial staff at the NY Slimes.
I have anxiety and am prone to panic attacks. This goes back many years. When I got COVID, it got much worse. So much so that I spent two days in different emergency rooms because the panic attacks totally turned me into a veg. As a precaution, I told my best friend the location of the lake where my weapons fell overboard. The long haul illness kept be from working for over a month, even though the COVID symptoms only lasted a week.
Took me almost 10 weeks to fully recover. To get over the long haul, my PHP changed up my medications. I loaded up on Boost, a probiotic, vitamin C, D3, Zinc and COQ10. I started to exercise, and in the process lost 50 pounds. I also met with a therapist a few times to help me cope and joined an online religious forum to work on my spiritual health.
What I realized is Long COVID isn’t COVID. It’s an imbalance of the mind, spirit and body where each needs to get back into sync for full recovery to happen. COVID is just the tool to break down the bodies full defenses, enabling the crap to infiltrate the mind, body and spirit.
This is why I believe the vaxx was designed to do this and the only information I have to go on is the serious uptick in suicides over the last two years by younger people. I was very close to wanting to eat my gun, but smart enough to realize this was done intentionally.
COVID was not an accident. COVID is the flu and the flu shot produced as a COVID vaccine had something in it which attacked something in my DNA which caused my long haul illness. And it is being covered up.
Didn’t that used to be called “hypochondria”?
I think you are wrong.
My wife says don’t give up hope. We can’t know the future.
Hello, I too have had all your symptoms – it’s uncanny. But I didn’t have the shot. I, too, suffer from anxiety, twice in the hospitals for various Covid-19 related reasons like pneumonia and tinnitus, I lost weight, I was a veg who was stripped of his identity and thought of killing myself, and it took about 10 - 12 weeks to recover. I’m in week 13 and am pretty much back to normal.
I believe what you are saying about Covid-19 strips the body of defenses and attacks the mind, body, and spirit. To help me I used meditation (mindfulness) and Siberian Fur oil which has terpene. Terpene has the ability recycle and regenerate cells, especially the neuron cells in the brain. Covid-19 attacks these cells, and they need be cleared and repaired (autophagy). Our nervous system takes a long time to heal and terpene and meditation helps in that process.
If you have The Epoch Times it has a program on this Covid-19 cure based on terpene and meditation: https://www.theepochtimes.com/43-percent-infected-by-covid-suffer-from-long-covid-symptoms-half-of-them-are-neuropsychiatric_4693445.html
Thank you for being so honest and up front on your experiences with Covid-19. I am slowly working my way through it, and it was a blessing to see that you have fully recovered. All the best!
Dude. I’m sorry to hear all this. 😭😢
So sorry to hear of your experiences post-covid.
Long covid is a very real thing.
I will put you on my prayer list. Surely, God has a miracle or two left
for someone who has led a good life.
Hang in there!
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