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@1goodtern
Sep 14 • 167 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Ten psychological issues that science has proven Covid can cause, but that Public Health are too scared to tell you about:
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Insomnia
2
Obsession
3
Suicidal ideation
4
Compulsion
5
Paranoia
6
Brain Fog
7
Derealisation
8
Intrusive thoughts
9
Emotional volatility
10
Emotional lability
11
Anhedonia
12
Panic attacks
13
Disconnection from reality
14
Sudden personality shifts
15
Gradual personality shifts
16
Loss of concentration
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Flattened motivation
18
Memory lapses
19
Heightened irritability
20
Social withdrawal
21
Loss of confidence
22
Unexplained fear
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Difficulty planning
24
Loss of empathy
25
Hallucinations
26
Mood swings
27
Catastrophic thinking
28
Impulsivity
29
Agitation
30
Obsessive rumination
31
Depersonalisation
32
Dissociation
33
Compulsive risk taking
47
Alexithymia
48
Executive dysfunction
49
Impaired working memory
50
Slowed processing speed
51
Reduced verbal fluency
52
Impaired decision making ability
53
Impaired error-monitoring
54
Difficulty initiating tasks
55
Perseveration
56
Obsessive checking
57
Compulsive cleaning
58
Compulsive reassurance seeking
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Maladaptive perfectionism
60
Intrusive memories
61
Trauma flashbacks
62
Exaggerated startle response
63
Autonomic overarousal
64
Agoraphobia
65
Depersonalisation episodes
66
Compulsive violence
67
Homicidal ideation
68
Hypomanic bursts
69
Psychotic breaks
70
Persecutory delusions
71
Grandiose delusions
72
Just delusions. Any delusions.
73
Thought broadcasting
74
Disorganised speech
75
Tangentiality
76
Expressive aphasia-like episodes
77
Receptive language difficulties
78
Mutism and selective mutism
79
Catatonia
80
Akathisia
81
Restless legs
82
Sleep-wake reversal
83
Hypersomnia
84
Fragmented sleep
85
Nightmares

I know that one doesn't seem very technical, but just ask someone with Long Covid about them.
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Vivid dreams
87
Night terrors
88
Circadian rhythm disruption
89
Morning dread
90
Diurnal mood variation
91
Seasonal worsening
92
Relapse into prior psychiatric disorders
93
Destabilisation of bipolar disorders
94
Unmasking of latent schizophrenia
95
Postpartum mood episodes
96
Postpartum psychosis
97
Perinatal anxiety
98
Panic upon separation
99
Maladaptive coping through drugs or alcohol
100
Compulsive overeating
101
Compulsive restriction
102
New-onset anorexia
103
Binge-purge behaviour
104
Pathological gambling
105
Compulsive spending
106
Diminished impulse control across domains
107
Erosion of stress tolerance
108
Sudden rage
109
Domestic conflict escalation
110
Paranoid jealousy
111
Social role collapse
112
Self-harm urges
Getting a bit more neurological than psychological...
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Anosmia
114
Parosmia
115
Phantosmia
116
Dysgeusia
117
Ageusia
118
Tinnitus
119
Hyperacusis
120
Photophobia
121
Visual snow
122
Blurred vision
123
Diplopia
123
Double vision
124
Depth perception loss
125
Impaired spatial navigation
126
Hemispatial neglect
127
Apraxia
128
Fine motor clumsiness
129
Dysgraphia
130
Dyscalculia
131
Dyslexia-like symptoms
132
Impaired reading comprehension
133
Impaired recognition of faces
134
Impaired recognition of voices
135
Loss of musical perception
136
Disrupted emotional recognition in others
137
Loss of theory of mind
138
Poor risk-reward evaluation
139
Impaired moral reasoning
140
Frontal disinhibition
141
Pseudobulbar affect (uncontrollable laughing)
(or crying, but we did crying earlier)
142
Inappropriate laughter or crying
143
Gait disturbance
144
Balance impairment
145
Postural instability
146
Tremor
147
Myoclonus (irregular twitching of muscle groups)
148
Dystonia (abnormal postures)
149
Seizures
150
New-onset epilepsy
151
Autonomic dysfunction
152
POTS-like tachycardia
153
Blood-pressure lability
154
Thermoregulation problems
155
Bladder urgency
156
Gastroparesis
157
Bowel dysregulation
158
Impaired swallowing
159
Choking episodes
160
Speech apraxia
161
Stammering
162
Slurred speech
163
Monotone voice
164
Hypophonia
(soft speech)
165
Parkinsonism
166
Bradykinesia (slowed movement)
167
Tics
168
Frontal lobe syndrome
169
Limbic irritability
170
Narcolepsy-like episodes
171
Exaggerated fear responses
172
Impaired filtering of irrelevant stimuli
173
Sensory overload
174
Claustrophobic sensations
175
Short term memory loss

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Sep 13
Every now and then I say to myself, "Am I nuts to be trying to avoid covid infection? No one else is."

And then I think about what those scaremongering bedwetters at the British Heart Foundation say. Image
"How does Covid-19 affect your heart?
We explain what Covid-19 does to your heart and circulatory system and how it can lead to conditions such as blood clots, heart damage, palpitations and high heart rate." Image
All those things sound nice.
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Sep 12
Last week I saw someone write about how 6 year olds have never heard of Covid even though they've had it at least five times here.

So this week I asked school children of all ages about Covid.

Some of what they said blew me away, especially the older teenagers.
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I'll start there because people don't read long threads 😅
I was doing an assembly for 450 fifteen and sixteen year olds, and I introduced myself, and said, "people here often ask me why I wear my mask, and the answer is that I'm trying to reduce my risk of catching and spreading covid..."
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Sep 10
"Covid? My first infection was nothing. Just a bad cold." Image
"Covid? Nah. I've had it twice, and I'm fine." Image
"Covid? Yeah, I've had it three times, and I'm fine. I feel a bit washed out maybe." Image
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Sep 8
A third sequence of BA.3.2* popping up in the Netherlands after a two month break, so it's maintaining itself in circulation even without further evolution.

BA.3.2 has lots of components of a formula one variant... except for the tyres.

When it finds them, it may go *fast*. Image
Just to explain that a little more...

Some dangerous variants appear *complete*.
They're the spawn of one or two existing widespread variants, and just pick up an extra mutation or recombination that makes them even more efficient.
That's like a formula one team taking an existing successful race car and giving it a slight modification that makes it even more competitive.
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Sep 4
I was in school yesterday, and a class asked me about my mask. I told them about why I wear it, and first one student, then another, quietly said that they had Long Covid. They explained it very matter-of-factly, the way young people sometimes do.
As they were speaking, I looked round the class at the other teenagers. They were listening without condemnation and with open minds.
Maybe it helped that they were a group studying philosophy and ethics.
Read 14 tweets
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Sep 4
When I write posts like this one, I normally get accused of being a doomer, but I really feel like that's a case of shooting the messenger.

But I'm not holding out much hope that treatments for persistent covid infection will make much of an impact on a population level.
Why?
Because of the people who have long covid, few actually know that they have long covid.
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