A study, looking at the health records of 154,000 former Covid patients, focused on the lingering mental health effects of infection.
People who’d had Covid were also 20 percent more likely to develop other substance use problems including alcoholism than people who’d never been infected, the study found. They were also 39 percent more likely to be diagnosed with depression, 35 percent more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, 38 percent more likely to be diagnosed with stress and adjustment disorders, and 41 percent more likely to be diagnosed with sleep disorders.
According to Al-Aly, this is not a matter of Covid simply being stress-inducing, although that likely plays a part in people’s increased anxiety, depression, and related conditions. The study controlled for people who had experienced hardships and stressors of the pandemic as well as people who had endured other serious viral infections, like a flu that resulted in hospitalization. The impact of Covid was unique, suggesting the virus itself may be capable of affecting people’s mental health.
The mental health impacts were more intense for people who had more serious infections, but the trend persisted for all levels of infection, even asymptomatic. The vast majority of people in the study had not been hospitalized with Covid. Al-Aly says more research is needed to learn what Covid is doing to people’s brains — and how to prevent it.
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