Neuropsychiatric Consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Synthetic Review from a Global Perspective 2022 Pandi-Perumal et al

Some research suggests that distress, secondary to isolation and fear following COVID-19 infection, can negatively affect the long-term more than the COVID-19 infection itself. This narrative review aims to provide a global view on the neuropsychiatric consequences of COVID-19 that can be ascribed to several factors, ranging from the direct effect of infection, to the body’s responses against the infection, or to the psychological sequelae of social isolation, unemployment, and fear for one’s health and livelihood.

Current findings show that the more severe the respiratory infection, the more likely are central nervous system (CNS) complications regarding the infection itself. The immune reactions to the infection may result in symptoms similar to chronic fatigue as well as neurocognitive deficits, which last long after the infection is gone. An increase in symptoms of depression, anxiety, and trauma-related stress may also follow upon economic fears and isolation from friends and family. The consequences of the pandemic are not limited to adults; children learning remotely and away from classmates and routine activities may develop adjustment disorders, acute stress disorder, and a variety of manifestations of grief.

A summary of case reports suggests that COVID-19-related stress, economic recession, and political unrest increase the risk of suicidal behaviors and acts of violence. However, it is unknown whether manifestations of mental disorders result from social causes or whether CNS complications may be responsible.

Open access, https://alpha-psychiatry.com/en/neu...etic-review-from-a-global-perspective-132689#

 

That is some grade A gaslighting of Long Covid patients as Psychosomatic! Medicine is really struggling with the concept of illness.

 

Could be horses. Could be ponies. Could be donkeys. But it could also be the ghosts of long-dead aliens inhabiting the body. As we all know, those are of equal merit when the horse has bolted from the barn long ago and no one really bothered looking for it, leading the whole farm to confidently declare that there was never any horse to begin with.

Really the whole biopsychosocial ideology consists of medical professionals completely baffled by the concept of illness. It seems to be a truism that only disease can impact function and there "mere" illness cannot. Which truly takes the cake for "what in the hell are these people thinking?".

All clearly a bunch of "may be" and "could be". All not just speculative but seriously weird, essentially showing that medicine has absolutely not produced any coherent knowledge about illness. And clearly not just grasping at straws with the children remote learning, but actually ignoring the reality where for many it was actually better, did not have to deal with bullying or getting up too early. This is all truly on the level of men writing about women in the 19th century, it genuinely has no more insight to it.

I genuinely have no clue why or how they managed to put political unrest in there. It's so hard to satirize this that the Scientology mythology doesn't even look especially absurd in comparison. An understanding of the reality of illness that is so lacking in depth it's not even a point, doesn't even have enough substance to be one-dimensional.