Do you know anything about Long COVID and how it may affect those of us with a history of anxiety and depression?
So Long COVID, it's essentially chronic fatigue syndrome. So they're the same thing. They have the same symptoms. It's just that Long COVID is just, it's more well-known now. So it's being taken seriously by doctors and researchers because they can't ignore the fact that people are just not completely recovering from COVID and they have long term symptoms after COVID. So that's going to help people who have chronic fatigue syndrome because it'll just shine light on chronic fatigue syndrome as well.
Now you're asking, so yeah, if you're wondering if your anxiety and depression could have been triggered by COVID, so it depends on whether you feel like you recovered from COVID. So if you got COVID, you felt sick and then you just never completely recovered from it then, yeah. COVID could be responsible. But if you returned to your normal baseline after COVID, so you got sick and you recovered. Now, that's not saying you had perfect health because you may not have been healthy before COVID either, but if you return to your baseline, then I don't think COVID is responsible for making your depression and anxiety worse. It just really depends on how you feel after getting COVID and how well you've recovered. If you never felt the same after COVID, then that's a sign that you have Long COVID.