“One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days”

UncleScoopy

This news is good to hear, because:

1. COVID hasn’t produced enough problems for us yet;

2. The USA just doesn’t have enough mental illness, dammit.

7 thoughts on ““One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days””

  1. Living in a country where the socialised medical system is as good as the opt in private system, I can’t understand why 50% of your country think it is a bad thing…

    If I chose not to pay the rip off prices for private cover, it just means I have to share a room or wait a little while longer to be seen.

    Along with full coverage for all ailments, I am ex military, and the specific problems that I had when I left the services are fully covered by the VA card. I also receive a pension for the reduced lifestyle I have due to these restrictions.

    Socialism has its upsides… better than the shit hole system of government you have stateside.

    1. They believe it because of lies broadcast by corporations who make a TON of money every day from the current system, Greg Mc. Those corporations (who are people, in the Gospel according to Mitt Romney) put out these lies on right wing media, and pay the Republican Party to repeat them.

      Secondarily, wealthy Americans do not want socialized medicine because they are wealthy, do not need it for themselves, and do not wish to pay the taxes to pay for it for others. They also pay the Republicans to oppose it.

      I think doctors used to oppose socialized medicine, 50-odd years ago when it was first seriously discussed here in the USA, but I don’t know if they still do.

      The payments to Republicans I speak of are campaign contributions, of course. Nothing so unseemly as direct bribes, although of course the end result is exactly the same.

  2. I have a friend in his 70’s who has been in a VA hospital for several weeks because he got Covid. I am glad to say he is recovering well (he was in the ICU for a while) and on the phone is as mentally sharp as ever, although easily fatigued. He will need physical therapy before he can return home, but fortunately he is a person who has always exercised voluntarily (unlike me).

    My experience with the VA, for my friend and my father, has made me a fan of socialized medicine.

    1. Have never had any problems with the VA, my medical “carrier”. Fortunate to live in a state that has a major VA medical facility relatively close by and a VA clinic just down the road.

      Anchors Aweigh …

  3. Hard to know. Likely many of these people had undiagnosed mental health issues before they got Covid.

      1. The article says ‘anxiety, depression and insomnia’ increased as a result of Covid (along with dementia.)

        I can’t dismiss the dementia, but we need to know more about who was studied. If it was anybody who was later determined to have Covid including those who showed no symptoms or mild symptoms, that’s interesting, if it was based on those who had the more severe cases of Covid, it’s not a surprise some would still have anxiety, depression and insomnia months later.’

        Beyond that, anxiety and depression can’t really be diagnosed with the same certainty as physical ailments (depending on the severity of the anxiety and depression) so, who knows?

        Finally, from other studies, as a result of the Covid 19 on nations, many citizens, and not just those who have had Covid-19, have been experiencing more anxiety, depression and insomnia.

        I think this study should be regarded as interesting and possibly concerning in regards especially to the dementia, but there certainly are reasons to question the findings.

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