I hope we don't go down the path of dismissing post-COVID symptoms as mental illness. Yes, some patients with post-COVID symptoms could simply be presenting wi

I hope we don't go down the path of dismissing post-COVID symptoms as mental illness. Yes, some patients with post-COVID symptoms could simply be presenting with mental illness. However, we can't simply dismiss the patients with measurable symptoms like cardiac irregularities, exercise intolerance, orthostatic intolerance, and other physical issues that only occurred after the COVID infection. Modern medicine (in any country) is not well equipped to handle complex disorders that don't yet have specific medical tests. It's common for doctors to reach for mental illness as an explanation, to the detriment of patients. Let's not repeat that for post-COVID.