“Kids – don’t try this at home!” How often have you read that warning and thought, “Well, that doesn’t apply to me because I’m an adult”? Pretty often, if one reads the news on a regular basis. The latest case involves a man who made the annals of medical oddities when he tried beating the. Read more »
People tend to think of COVID-19 in terms of its physical manifestations, but there’s mounting evidence that it may also mess with your mind. Odd neurological complications, from loss of taste and smell to seizures, have surfaced in some COVID patients, while so-called long haulers have complained of lingering brain fog. Now there’s a possible link between COVID and psychosis.
Doctors around the world are reporting psychotic symptoms in a small number of patients who’ve had the SARS-CoV-2 infection,
The reports are just that: individual episodes of psychosis following a bout of COVID-19. There’s no proof that coronavirus causes psychosis, at least not yet. It’s merely an association that medical professionals have observed, albeit a worrisome one.
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