Unfortunately the same model of anxiety, depression, bad mental health, deconditioning or not trying hard enough is also applied to Long-Covid patients, particularly if the tests come back normal.Despite multiple positive tests, indicating repeated current EBV infections, as well as other repeated, and confirmed infections, pwME are viewed as suffering from a psychological illness.
Would not there be some thought given to this being a physical disease?
It seems the easy way out is to blame the patient for their imagined poor attitude, and presumed lazy lifestyle. Diagnose depression and/or anxiety, and prescribe counselling and exercise, and nothing else.