An Interesting Study

Some good work on this report

 

Stop being so damn narcissistic will you, trying to influence people with your evidence based statistic

 

I read something yesterday that suggested that covid leads to an increased susceptibility to mental illness.

 

I've not read it myself, but the wife mentioned that she'd seen something suggesting 20% of recovered Covid patients had mental health issues after recovery. I don't know any more than that.

 

Yes, that's the figure I read.

 

I remember this being reported in the news a few months ago. Instances of recoverees suffering psychosis through brain damage. This is why we have to be very careful with COVID. It was said that these symptoms don't manifest immediately either. I'm not sure how they could be sure the two were linked. Stay safe everyone.

 

I've suffered depression since a brain injury I sustained playing football when I was 29 (26 years ago). There are lots of causes of depression & other mental illness, other than people just feeling sorry for themselves. The number of people i've told to **** off when they suggested I could just get over it is now into the hundreds. Obviously isolation and bad life circumstances make things worse & yes you can do things to improve it, although those are certainly limited under lockdown, whatever anyone says. I'd also suggest the lead time to someone starting on the road to mental illness & them committing suicide could be quite a long one, so I'm not sure those stats are that reliable.

 

That can't be true, given the constant comparisons with influenza by some on here.

 

One of the symptoms of Covid is increased blood clotting - It has been linked to increased rate of strokes among younger (40s) patients. It could follow that *some* damage occurs from that in the brain and other organs.

 

I had an embolism after getting kicked in the head in what was an innocent football injury. These things are much more likely due to COVID. Some are greater than others. Mine left me with tunnel vision, bad headaches for years & long term depression, so I think it's fair to say serious COVID is likely to do the same for others. I had COVID two weeks ago. I had no breathing issues, but very bad headaches, which was pretty scary as other than taking aspirin there wasn't anything that could really be done. Warfarin has too many side effects for me, after being on it for 10 years after the injury.