Posted on 06/07/2022 7:08:07 PM PDT by lightman
A recent study published by Oregon State University discovered that COVID-19 infected individuals have a higher chance of developing psychiatric disorders within about four months of contracting the virus.
For the study, published in World Psychiatry on May 7, researchers used data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). They matched 46,610 patients infected with COVID-19, which can trigger a respiratory tract infection (RTI), with control patients diagnosed with a different RTI.
This allowed researchers to specifically look into how COVID-19 affected the mental health of infected individuals. No patients with any history of mental illness prior to 21 days after a COVID-19 diagnosis were included in the study. Those with a medical record extending a year prior to their COVID-19 diagnosis were also excluded.
Researchers looked at the rate of psychiatric diagnoses in the 46,610 COVID-19 patients for two time periods—the early post-acute phase between 21 and 120 days from the infection and the late post-acute phase between 121 and 365 days from the infection.
he study discovered that COVID-19 patients had a 3.8 percent rate of developing a psychiatric disorder in the early post-acute phase when compared to just 3 percent for other respiratory tract infections. This amounted to a nearly 25 percent higher risk for COVID-19 patients.
However, the researchers did not find such a “significant difference in risk” when they compared COVID-19 late post‐acute phase patients with individuals with other respiratory tract infections.
When researchers looked at anxiety disorders, they found the incidence proportion of a new‐onset anxiety disorder diagnosis was “significantly higher” for COVID-19 patients when compared to RTI patients. For mood disorders, such significant differences were not observed.
“For people that have had COVID, if you’re feeling anxiety, if you’re seeing some changes in how you’re going through life from a psychiatric standpoint, it’s totally appropriate for you to seek some help,” Lauren Chan, co-author of the study, said according to a June 6 news release by Eurekalert.
And if you’re a care provider, you need to be on the proactive side and start to screen for those psychiatric conditions and then follow up with those patients.”
Chan stressed that not every COVID-19 infected individual is going to have such psychiatric problems. In the context of the health care infrastructure of the United States, an increase in the number of COVID-19 patients seeking psychiatric care could add more strain on the system, she warned.
Multiple other studies have also suggested that a segment of COVID-19 patients might end up facing psychological issues.
Research published in April 2021 found that 34 percent of the 236,379 COVID-19 survivors included in the study developed neurological and mental disorders in the six months after becoming infected, according to WebMD.
Anxiety was the most commonly found disorder, with 17 percent of subjects reporting it. This was followed by mood disorders at 14 percent, substance abuse disorders at 7 percent, and insomnia at 5 percent.
When it came to neurological problems, 0.6 percent reported brain hemorrhage, 2.1 percent reported ischemic strokes, and 0.7 percent reported dementia. Among patients diagnosed as seriously ill with COVID-19, these rates jumped. Of the patients admitted to the intensive care unit, 7 percent experienced a stroke while 2 percent were diagnosed with dementia.
In another study published on Feb. 16 at BMJ, researchers analyzed records of nearly 153,848 COVID-19 patients in the Veterans Health Administration (VHS) system, comparing them with individuals who had not contracted the virus.
Those who got infected were found to be 35 percent more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety following the infection than uninfected people, 38 percent were more likely to be diagnosed with adjustment and stress disorders, 39 percent were more likely to be diagnosed with depression, and 41 percent were more likely to be diagnosed with sleep disorders.
“There appears to be a clear excess of mental health diagnoses in the months after Covid,” Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford who was not involved in the study, told The New York Times.
However, only 4.4 to 5.6 percent of individuals in the study were diagnosed with anxiety, depression, adjustment, and stress disorders.
“It’s not an epidemic of anxiety and depression, fortunately,” Harrison added. “But it’s not trivial.”
I’d say that the weaker mentally will follow what “the science” says. They vaxxed, they suffer mental illness.
Screwing around with your DNA has consequences.
Dang. That's crazy.
I’d believe those who actually quarantined for two years, vaxxed multiple times and are surprised when they catch a variant the vaccine wasn’t designed for have other psychiatric issues well beyond those associated with covid.
They’re told 24/7 that COVID-19 is gonna get them every which way it can.
It’s on your cash; better not use cash.
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COVID-19 contraction is a higher risk in high population areas, which tend to be predominantly Democrat...
Which came first, the Covid or psychosis? I’m leaning towards that latter.
I can’t find in the article that it says they were vaxxed, thoug.
I wonder how this correlates to watching leftist/deep state TV.
Omg, that reminds me of my nephew early on in the pandemic. He decided to microwave his cash. Lost a quick $100 that way, and he is not someone who could afford to lose $10.
Seems to be a study looking for a pre-determined result.
Almost anyone going through Covid is going to experience some level of anxiety; and the mental/emotional issue may have been there to start with but didn’t present in any significant way before.
Yeah, they claim that all those people were not previously diagnosed as psychotic. And yet there are millions of people who voted for Biden.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. /s
Explain please. This is about people who have had the virus not the vaccine
All to get people to accept all-electronic currency.
And tracking.
And eventually, the Mark of the Beast (where it will end up)
I had it for the second time a month ago and on about day 3 of what was nasal congestion and utter fatigue for 6-7 days, I felt very sad or depressed. I am the happiest person I know. I also know how to recapture happiness when a happening brings me down temporarily. Since I was so weak and couldn’t get anything done and was quarantined, I could not tell if this sadness was from not being functional OR did it come from the virus itself. I decided after a couple days that the virus does indeed have a mood aspect. Getting back to active life, forcing myself to get exercise slowly at first, I went back to my normal moods.
Autoimmune disease is a cause of both COVID complications and psychiatric disorders.
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