Very anecdotal but the people I know who got long COVID were all doing perfectly fine until after they got COVID. So, at least the 2+ years before they got omic

Very anecdotal but the people I know who got long COVID were all doing perfectly fine until after they got COVID. So, at least the 2+ years before they got omicron didn't cause them to be depressed. They also are not affected by the economic situation and have stable jobs. None of them have any material differences in circumstances compared to before they had COVID and all of them had COVID late in the omicron wave after being fully vaccinated. Of course, that's purely anecdotal but it does hint that there must be something else happening.