Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has been studied for decades and they still can't really figure out what it is. Some think there is a psychosomatic component to the disease.
"Long covid" can have similar symptoms to, or perhaps causes, CFS, as well as having other symptoms. It seems feasible that there are physiological causes behind this. At the same time, the social response to covid has, in part, been one of fear and hysteria.
Some of the symptoms of long covid include depression and anxiety, as well as very common sequelae such as "fatigue" and "headaches". It is easy to imagine that someone who believes they will suffer from a disease with these symptoms might exaggerate or outright manifest these symptoms.
At the same time, they're doing MRIs on people diagnosed with long covid and are apparently finding measurable differences in their lungs: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55017301
This is not to mention other organs or systems covid is claimed to damage, like the brain or the heart.
Clearly some people who contract covid will end up with long term illness; covid would have to be an especially mild infection otherwise. However, we still don't know how common or severe it is and, to the layman, most of the studies and arguments around it are painfully unconvincing. To what extent is long covid psychosomatic?
"Long covid" can have similar symptoms to, or perhaps causes, CFS, as well as having other symptoms. It seems feasible that there are physiological causes behind this. At the same time, the social response to covid has, in part, been one of fear and hysteria.
Some of the symptoms of long covid include depression and anxiety, as well as very common sequelae such as "fatigue" and "headaches". It is easy to imagine that someone who believes they will suffer from a disease with these symptoms might exaggerate or outright manifest these symptoms.
At the same time, they're doing MRIs on people diagnosed with long covid and are apparently finding measurable differences in their lungs: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55017301
This is not to mention other organs or systems covid is claimed to damage, like the brain or the heart.
Clearly some people who contract covid will end up with long term illness; covid would have to be an especially mild infection otherwise. However, we still don't know how common or severe it is and, to the layman, most of the studies and arguments around it are painfully unconvincing. To what extent is long covid psychosomatic?
