Extreme Psychotic Reactions In Few COVID Patients By Ralph Ellis
Dec. 30, 2020 Doctors who treat COVID-19 patients are reporting that a small number of them are developing severe psychotic symptoms weeks or months after contracting the virus, the Times said.
One patient described by the
Times was 42 years old, a physical therapist and the mother of four children, aged 2-10. She got the coronavirus in the spring, had mild symptoms, and months later heard a voice telling her to kill herself and then telling her to kill her children.
She took herself to a psychiatric hospital in Amityville, NY.
“It was like she was experiencing a movie, like Kill Bill, ” a psychiatrist at the hospital, Hisam Goueli, MD, told the
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A form of inflammatory cell death called panoptosis triggers the storm of cytokines, or inflammatory proteins, that causes critical illness in COVID-19, researchers say. During inflammatory cell death, cells spew out their contents instead of neatly packaging them away as happens during routine cell death, Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti of St. Jude Children s Research Hospital told Reuters. Neighboring cells see the cytokines released and the other unexpected debris as a sign of danger, and they can respond by secreting more cytokines, allowing the cytokine storm to build.
Her team identified a synergy between two cytokines, TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma, as the cause of panoptosis in COVID-19. Mice given TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma developed the symptoms and organ damage of COVID-19 and died rapidly, Kanneganti said.
» A Voice Told Me to Kill My Kids : A Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms
8-MIN READ A Voice Told Me to Kill My Kids : A Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms
From left: Drs. Jonathan Komisar, Brian Kincaid and Colin Smith of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., Nov. 27, 2020. They treated a psychotic patient who had never experienced mental health problems before contracting the coronavirus. (Jeremy M. Lange/The New York Times)
A small number of COVID patients who had never experienced mental health problems are developing severe psychotic symptoms weeks after contracting the coronavirus.
Report details cases of severe psychosis in Covid patients in the UK and the US
Psychotic symptoms are being seen in people with no prior psychiatric history
One UK woman saw hospital staff as devils and washed her phone in the sink
Another US woman began carrying a knife and put hand sanitiser in her food
Australian experts have estimated psychosis affects up to 4% of Covid patients