They say frontliners as well as recovered patients and their relatives are at risk. FMTNews PPE Covid19 PTSD
Experts say frontliners are at risk of developing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder from treating patients who eventually died.
Dr Andrew Mohanraj, president of the Malaysian Mental Health Association, told FMT he would not be surprised to hear of frontliners afflicted with PTSD because of the helplessness they might have felt in watching their patients die. Dr Philip George, who heads the International Medical University’s psychiatry department, said the post-intensive-care syndrome could look like a combination of physical and mental impairments, which would make it difficult for sufferers to go back to daily life after recovery.
“As we have seen with the SARS and MERS-Cov infections, there can be an increase in cases of depression, anxiety, post-infection fatigue and PTSD after recovery.” He said the effect would vary in severity between individuals, but those with low self-esteem, for example, could be particularly affected by ostracism from their communities.
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