A third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders -study

Yahoo/Reuters ^ | Kate Kelland

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One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of mental and neurological problems, scientists said on Tuesday.

Researchers who conducted the analysis said it was not clear how the virus was linked to psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression, but that these were the most common diagnoses among the 14 disorders they looked at.

Post-COVID cases of stroke, dementia and other neurological disorders were rarer, the researchers said, but were still significant, especially in those who had severe COVID-19.

"Our results indicate that brain diseases and psychiatric disorders are more common after COVID-19 than after flu or other respiratory infections," said Max Taquet, a psychiatrist at Britain's Oxford University, who co-led the work.

The study was not able to determine the biological or psychological mechanisms involved, he said, but urgent research is needed to identify these "with a view to preventing or treating them".

Health experts are increasingly concerned by evidence of higher risks of brain and mental health disorders among COVID-19 survivors. A previous study by the same researchers found last year that 20% of COVID-19 survivors were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within three months.

The new findings, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, analysed health records of 236,379 COVID-19 patients, mostly from the United States, and found 34% had been diagnosed with neurological or psychiatric illnesses within six months.

[DoughtyOne]

To be honest, I think the last year was hard on everyone’s
mental condition.

[Truthoverpower]

100% of Karen’s are suffering mental disorders

[luckystarmom]

My 24 year old brain injured daughter has been reading about neurological side effects of Covid.

She decided to get the vaccine. She said even if the vaccine made her infertile, if it prevented neurologic problems it would be worth it for her.

She said she wasn’t worried about dying from Covid, just worried how her brain would handle it.

[luckystarmom]

I have friends who weren’t on a ventilator who are having some neurological problems. One wasn’t even hospitalized.

I don’t think it’s common, but it is an issue.

[Karl Spooner]

Mentally ill, sorry we have take your guns.

[garandgal]

It’s not just you. I had this “thing” before there were tests...and a pretty bad case. Aside from the usual symptoms, I basically had “dementia” for a few weeks afterwards.

I was having to google words that I use every day at work; struggled to put a sentence together. One day, I forgot the name of a good friend of 25 years - his office is right next to mine. Was thinking I’d have to call my family to tell them that I had early onset Alzheimers...I’m in my mid-50’s. It cleared up after a few weeks (gradually). The loss of smell took months to come back.

Later, several of my younger customers (20’s-40’s) tested positive and ALL of them had the same brain fog problem. As an aside, one of them had a lingering loss of smell and narrowly averted tragedy when he bumped a gas line on a stove. Fortunately, someone who could smell the gas leak arrived at the jobsite a few minutes later.

I swear, it is going to (longer term) cause dementia, MS or ALS like syndromes...just saying. We will all find out together...lol.

[kingu]

12·84% (just under 13%) of the people who were diagnosed with psychological or neurological illness had never previously been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

Meaning over 87% had. About an 1/8th had their first diagnosis. That's, wow. So before COVID, the overwhelming majority in this study had a previous diagnosis. This doesn't sound like a causation result, it sounds like they had mental health issues before COVID and shock among shocks, they still had it after COVID.

I'm also unsure why the study didn't work in the isolation from lockdowns, the reduced social interactions from restrictions, the vastly curtailed mental health therapy and sessions.

Seems like one more of those garbage in, garbage out studies designed to put fear into people, and dang if I've not heard from many people today that getting COVID will give you mental health issues, so best get the shot before the China virus makes you crazy.

[familyop]

"Anxiety, at 17%, and mood disorders, at 14%, were the most common, and did not appear to be related to how mild or severe the patient's COVID-19 infection had been."

And of those who were in intensive care, 2% with dementia later on. Interesting.

[metmom]

Considering what the government has inflicted on us in the last year under the guise of controlling a *pandemic*, small wonder people are not in the best mental health.

[familyop]

Thank you, garandgal! I’ve read similar accounts from others. Some damage was done, but you’re recovering nicely. :)

[Falconspeed]

“analysed health records of 236,379 COVID-19”

100% patients probably felt anxious and concerned. I did when I got COVID-19. But anxiety and concern aren’t disorders. Just hassles.

The stress of carrying around myths, such as a person who lacks a mask in the market can kill someone with germs, is depressing for young people 10-25 years old.

[Norski]

Loss of sense of smell and taste is a classic symptom of zinc deficiency. Considering the article, it may have other effects, as well.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7082716/

Zinc, the brain and behavior
C C Pfeiffer, E R Braverman

PMID: 7082716

Abstract

The total content of zinc in the adult human body averages almost 2 g. This is approximately half the total iron content and 10 to 15 times the total body copper. In the brain, zinc is with iron, the most concentrated metal. The highest levels of zinc are found in the hippocampus in synaptic vesicles, boutons, and mossy fibers. Zinc is also found in large concentrations in the choroid layer of the retina which is an extension of the brain. Zinc plays an important role in axonal and synaptic transmission and is necessary for nucleic acid metabolism and brain tubulin growth and phosphorylation. Lack of zinc has been implicated in impaired DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis during brain development. For these reasons, deficiency of zinc during pregnancy and lactation has been shown to be related to many congenital abnormalities of the nervous system in offspring. Furthermore, in children insufficient levels of zinc have been associated with lowered learning ability, apathy, lethargy, and mental retardation. Hyperactive children may be deficient in zinc and vitamin B-6 and have an excess of lead and copper. Alcoholism, schizophrenia, Wilson’s disease, and Pick’s disease are brain disorders dynamically related to zinc levels. Zinc has been employed with success to treat Wilson’s disease, achrodermatitis enteropathica, and specific types of schizophrenia.
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Female
Hippocampus / metabolism
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Humans
Iron / metabolism
Magnesium / metabolism
Neural Conduction
Pregnancy
Retina / metabolism
Schizophrenia / metabolism
Taste / physiology
Zinc / deficiency
Zinc / metabolism*

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Hormones
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Histamine
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[Norski]

ping to post # 32 this thread. Thank you.

[garandgal]

Thanks. I get a good amount of zinc from my diet; also have been taking a zinc supplement for awhile, just in case.:)

[Cobra64]

Yup, seeing the masked drones walking around like zombies is enough to give any normal person anxietyy.

[jerod]

Covid disability cash... What an awesome idea.

[ReaganGeneration2]

“The stress of carrying around myths, such as a person who lacks a mask in the market can kill someone with germs, is depressing for young people 10-25 years old.”

The very act of a healthy person wearing a mask promotes this thinking in young people. It now obvious we are contributing to a heinous sin against humanity.

[RaceBannon]

maybe you will receive someone else’s RNA sequence that will change other parts of your DNA internally, too, and become sicker by design or incapable of fighting off something...by design...too.

[XRdsRev]

My wife’s best friend got COVID a little while back. She said it felt like a bad flu and she could not get out of bed for over a week. Since her recovery over a month ago, she has been plagued by headaches and has not been able to sleep more than an hour or two at a time. She is a wreck.

[MissEdie]

I didn't believe it until I had Covid in late February. I am still struggling with fatigue that resembles what I felt when I had mono and what I call brain fog that gets scary sometimes. I am flowing my doctor's advice of slowly exercising, eating healthy, adding B12, C and Zinc to my diet, but more importantly listening to my body and when I feel exhausted I rest. I thought I was fortunate when I had it because I did not get as sick as my husband. He needed an infusion treatment at our local hospital. He says he feels back to his old self already. Me on the other hand, seem to have longer lasting symptoms. I also feel the Chinese were still tweaking this virus to see how much harm it could do. IMHO I feel China unleashed a biological attack against the entire world in order for them to make economic gains.