Researchers found that people who had contracted COVID were more likely to develop mental health disorders like anxiety, depression, substance use and cognitive decline.They found that the people who had COVID were 35 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety. GETTY
The research “suggests the need to reframe our thinking about SARS-CoV-2,” the study authors say. “It is not only a respiratory virus; it is a systemic virus that may provoke damage and clinical consequences in nearly every organ system — including mental health disorders and neurocognitive decline.”Researchers looked at almost 154,000 people who had contracted COVID, none of whom had had any mental health diagnosis or treatment in the two years before they were infected.
And although people with more severe illnesses who were hospitalized were at an increased likelihood of developing these averse neurological symptoms, it’s telling that even mild cases resulted in some of the same diagnoses, researchers pointed out. It’s also notable to look at how people hospitalized for COVID fared, compared to people hospitalized for other reasons.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
healthing_ca This is a scary thought!