BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

Having a “Mental disorder” provides 100% protection against physiological consequences of viral infection don’t ya know

 

How is this different from "We have the impression that the symptoms are triggered by negative karma from past lives. This can also be treated very well. But the willingness to do so is less pronounced because people don't accept that they have behaved badly in their past lives"?

The only difference is that in the West, one narrative is culturally accepted and the other is not.

With these kind of views, the patients who need real help are going to run away quickly, leaving only the ones that are recovering anyway where everything you do will appear to work (until you test the treatment with a proper control group).

 

This idea of dismissing physical or physiological causes for symptoms of any disease or health problem if the people concerned have a previous psych diagnosis is just bizarre as far as I'm concerned. It suggests that being mentally ill automatically confers total protection on the patient from any physical disease.

 

It'd be nice if it did.

One little pill to give someone a minor diagnosable psych condition.....could cure cancer, heart disease, or maybe even the effects of being in a plane crash.

Hoyfully they ate work8ng on this

 

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deut...rus-montag-einundzwanzigster-februar-100.html

https://twitter.com/user/status/1495868665312550916

 

Large public funded psychosomatic study to research Long-COVID. It is led by the psychosomatic department of a university clinic in Munich with the participation of several clinics in other German cities. The announcement is from October 2021. https://www.mri.tum.de/news/psyloco...chosomatische-studie-zur-erforschung-von-long

 

Nice of them look into this.

I have long thought that such people, departments could really help people.

Of course they may not like being custard pie targets, but that would just show their determination to help improve lives.

 

They express themselves more cautiously than the neurologist from Essen, who says Longcovid without test results = psychosomatic.

But this clinic has or had a bad reputation regarding ME/CFS. (Not to be confused with the Children's Hospital in Munich which takes ME/CFS seriously.) The study does not sound encouraging to me, vague buzzwords, a digital self-help programme ... possibly just more patient blaming and waste of money?

 

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This article is about Long Covid in children. The article itself is quite vile and dismissive, and the comments are horrendous. Doctors, researchers and scientists have obviously decided to turn the volume up on the gaslighting.

Why 'long Covid' may not actually be to blame for fatigue in children: Tell-tale symptoms are JUST as common in youngsters who've never had the virus, official data shows

 

It is astonishing how little critical assessment is being made by those in a position of authority. E.g. it has been established that case-control stratification via seropositivity is significantly compromised. And of course results are meaningless when cases are in control groups. As has been pointed out single-symptom comparisons are also meaningless in this context.

The guidance to let-it-rip amongst children carries enormous risk. This is currently the messaging in NZ now too, despite the fact that we have absolutely no data on Omicron's long term effects and poor vaccine uptake for 5-11. We've recently heard that Pfizer offers little protection against infection in the 5-11 yo group, also. But everyone now seems to have convinced themselves "it's mild" and "just a cold".

Similarly, everyone seems to have assured themselves that children's mental health will suffer unless they are in school and unmasked. It should go without saying that their mental health will suffer more from a lifetime of chronic illness or transmitting the virus to a vulnerable family member.

 

Covid: How could the pandemic have affected your brain?

"Memory loss, fatigue and trouble concentrating can be symptoms of having had coronavirus.

But scientists think people who haven't had Covid are also suffering increased tiredness, impaired decision-making and a lack of focus due to the pandemic.

Experts believe Covid uncertainty and disruption to routines have led to a phenomenon known as "pandemic brain".

A leading behavioural neuroscientist is now calling for more research into it.

"People form habits so we see friends on a particular day or enjoy a sport on a particular evening - and that lack of regularity can be quite challenging," said Dr Emma Yhnell."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60558431

 

Good thread . Aimed at LC but applicable to many chronic illnesses

https://twitter.com/user/status/1499758660746153984