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Delirium, depression, anxiety, PTSD – the less discussed effects of COVID-19

Obviously, we don’t have long-term data for COVID-19, but looking at past epidemics can give us some idea of what to look out for in the next few months and years. When patients with Sars and Mers were assessed a few months later, 15% had depression and 15% had an anxiety disorder. Mental illness is common, though, so it’s hard to know how many of these people had longstanding problems or were struggling for other reasons.

What was really striking, though, was that rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were more than 30%. This is huge and hard to attribute to anything except the experience of the infection and its treatment. Fatigue also seemed to be a big problem: 19% of patients were still reporting this even months after “recovering”.

https://theconversation.com/delirium-depression-anxiety-ptsd-the-less-discussed-effects-of-covid-19-138671