The treatment of biological health conditions as though they have a mental illness origin is totally unacceptable.
The Wired article, written by a professor of religion, is an ideological hit job on the very enterprise of medicine and evidence.
Par for the course for religion.
Medicine should aspire to have more explanatory power, evidence, and reproducibility than shamanism.
The Wired article is profoundly anti-scientific.
The pathophysiology of long covid is not psychogenic.
Long covid isn’t a mental illness.
It’s a multi-system disruption of endocrinology, energy systems, vasculature, and organs. This is verified in >400K studies, many indexed with MRI and biomarkers.
nature.com/articles/s4157…
People living with long Covid (~16% of US adults in 2026) deserve compassionate care.
They deserve an integrated management approach that uses physical therapists, occupational therapists, and specialists knowledgeable about their condition.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Where the stress of living with long Covid and chronic illness becomes a burden, mental health care can help.
This must be supportive, honest, and treat the stress of managing chronic illness as central.
It cannot imagine away suffering or replace actual root cause treatment.
The Wired article does not advocate for this kind of wraparound care.
It invalidates the very reality of biological disease processes that cause long Covid patients suffering and harm.
It uses junk processes to try to brainwash patients to imagine away root cause pathology.
I challenge everyone reading the Wired article to ask himself, “Would I accept this approach as a standard of care for managing a stroke or kidney failure?”
If the answer is no — and it ought to be — the proposed approach should be soundly rejected.
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