Millions of people are now suffering from long COVID, which presents with a staggering array of possible symptoms that can linger for months, or even years.
More than 40 percent of those who developed long COVID had no previous mental health conditions. The study's results remained similar when they excluded participants reporting psychiatric, cognitive, and neurological symptoms.
Most other long COVID symptoms, like coughing, are not symptoms associated with mental illness. What's more, while physical activity is well established as protective against mental illness relapses, half of those with long COVID experienced relapses when trying to exercise; physical and mental health stressors that could exacerbate long COVID need to be considered in tandem.
It may be something that's common to these types of distress, rather than the mental health conditions themselves, that is playing a role in long COVID.A UK study
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