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I do not want to discount your personal experience, but could it be that you are/were just depressed? I know my depression got severely worse during COVID. Depr

I do not want to discount your personal experience, but could it be that you are/were just depressed? I know my depression got severely worse during COVID. Depression can make you feel sluggish, especially when you give up physical activity entirely for a while due to illness and then try to start again. And then it also makes sense that with progressive physical therapy you realize you can afford more and more physical effort.

djha-skin 4y ago
I have a long history of depression and anxiety and ADHD. I have lots of experience with it and I go to a psychiatrist for it. It is well controlled at this point. Depression feels like I don't want to do anything. This doesn't feel like that. This feels like someone put a plastic bag over my head and I can't breathe. It is a real physiological thing. It's like somebody put a really strong rubber band around my entire lung section. I woke up perfectly happy that day and ready to work, and I tried to bike, and it was like I was biking but then somebody blocked my airway with a really thick towel. When I say I can't bike I'm not talking about a "first world" or even "the struggle is real" kind of can't. I'm talking about a physical reality, a "car engine can't run without oxygen, body is ordering me to stop" kind of can't. One time shortly after the disease I got really annoyed that my ability was decreasing and just biked anyway. The next day my lungs were so bad that I had to get work off. I also wanted to comment on the brain fog comments. Brain fog from long covid isn't a "life has no meaning, why try" problem like depression has been in the past for me. Brain fog is a physiological problem. Your brain consumes 30% of the oxygen you breathe. If you're getting less oxygen, you can't think as much. It becomes harder to remember the name of the item that you use to control the TV ("remote") or the name of your second born son. I remember one time it took me ages to remember that the word for that thing you used to strain pasta is called a collander.
- petodo 4y ago
  > I have a long history of depression and anxiety and ADHD. So you basically confirmed this has nothing to do with COVID and there is no such thing as "Long COVID". Nobody denies whatever you feel, but trying to link it to COVID is just latching on buzz word. It's interesting people with history of depression, anxiety and other mental issues are much more likely to report long COVID than people without such history , it's almost as their condition had nothing to do with COVID. And we can take it even further, prevalence of Long COVID with drugs/shrinks addicted US is much higher than anywhere else in world, while in most of the world they don't even hear about some "long COVID" cases, because people can't afford "long COVID" over there.
  - djha-skin 4y ago
    Your comment makes me feel like you didn't read the whole thing. If you had, you might have had another complaint, but not this one.
    - petodo 4y ago
      Yeah, I find interesting there is corelation between US recognizing very common cases of "long COVID" as well as "ADHD", while in most of the world these two things are never heard of besides when they watch US movies, it's almost as if they are made up diseases/disorders.

djha-skin 4y ago

I have a long history of depression and anxiety and ADHD. I have lots of experience with it and I go to a psychiatrist for it. It is well controlled at this point. Depression feels like I don't want to do anything. This doesn't feel like that. This feels like someone put a plastic bag over my head and I can't breathe. It is a real physiological thing. It's like somebody put a really strong rubber band around my entire lung section. I woke up perfectly happy that day and ready to work, and I tried to bike, and it was like I was biking but then somebody blocked my airway with a really thick towel. When I say I can't bike I'm not talking about a "first world" or even "the struggle is real" kind of can't. I'm talking about a physical reality, a "car engine can't run without oxygen, body is ordering me to stop" kind of can't. One time shortly after the disease I got really annoyed that my ability was decreasing and just biked anyway. The next day my lungs were so bad that I had to get work off. I also wanted to comment on the brain fog comments. Brain fog from long covid isn't a "life has no meaning, why try" problem like depression has been in the past for me. Brain fog is a physiological problem. Your brain consumes 30% of the oxygen you breathe. If you're getting less oxygen, you can't think as much. It becomes harder to remember the name of the item that you use to control the TV ("remote") or the name of your second born son. I remember one time it took me ages to remember that the word for that thing you used to strain pasta is called a collander.

petodo 4y ago
> I have a long history of depression and anxiety and ADHD. So you basically confirmed this has nothing to do with COVID and there is no such thing as "Long COVID". Nobody denies whatever you feel, but trying to link it to COVID is just latching on buzz word. It's interesting people with history of depression, anxiety and other mental issues are much more likely to report long COVID than people without such history , it's almost as their condition had nothing to do with COVID. And we can take it even further, prevalence of Long COVID with drugs/shrinks addicted US is much higher than anywhere else in world, while in most of the world they don't even hear about some "long COVID" cases, because people can't afford "long COVID" over there.
- djha-skin 4y ago
  Your comment makes me feel like you didn't read the whole thing. If you had, you might have had another complaint, but not this one.
  - petodo 4y ago
    Yeah, I find interesting there is corelation between US recognizing very common cases of "long COVID" as well as "ADHD", while in most of the world these two things are never heard of besides when they watch US movies, it's almost as if they are made up diseases/disorders.