There's a decent chance we'll see a wave of mycoplasma pneumonia this year. I'm very curious to see if the parts of the internet that are still insisting that 10% of Covid cases lead to Long Covid will start going on about Long Mycoplasma or Chronic Mycoplasma.
I hope you and those you love never have to experience long covid. I hope nobody you love ever has a covid induced stroke or clot or dissection or aneurysm or weeks to months after infection. I hope nobody you love calls you in terror 4 months post infection because they have suddenly forgotten where they live. Long covid is real I saw it happen to my sister with my very own eyes.
And if the above happens to you or someone you love, I hope nobody tries to tell you it isn't real.
I know several people who have or have had the delayed recovery type of long covid. I also worked in healthcare during the start of the pandemic so I know full well that the more severe types of long covid are real. I've also seen how people who are vaccinated are so much less likely to develop any type of Long Covid.
That's why I'm so frustrated with social media influencers who exaggerate the chance of developing Long Covid or link it to fake diseases like adrenal fatigue. They make Long Covid look like a mass hysteria that mostly affects affluent women. I also know a couple of fully vaccinated people who have developed anxiety disorders around avoiding SARS-cov2 infections and are now arranging their lives around avoiding the virus. Those online influencers are reinforcing the things that their anxiety disorders tell them.
By "developing their lives by arranging their lives around avoiding the virus" do you mean masking and avoiding crowds? Can you be specific as to what criteria for anxiety disorders as outlined in the DSM they meet per their covid precautions?
I watched the closest person in the world to me suffer a cardiac arrest and arterial dissection in her brainstem from covid infection. I watched her develop long covid. I watched the utter and complete callousness of people I thought loved and cared about us dismiss and deny what happened to her. I cannot afford having what happened to my sister happen to me. Therefore, I mask on buses, trains, and in stores. I avoid indoor restaurants (I'm on EBT so it's not like I can do that anyway). I rinse 2x a daily with cetylpyridine mouthwash which is proven to lower viral loads, and I take supplements that degrade the spike protein (NaC, quercetin, vit C, vit D.) .
I was 3x jabbed with Pfizer when I got covid and I was sick for months. I actually was in the hospital for a bit during a bad bout of tachycardia and a forlorn looking nurse TOLD me she was seeing the boosters kill people and that just as many vaxed as unvaxed were dying. I'll never forget that, I cried so hard in terror and fear that the doctor had to shoot me up with Ativan and they sent that nurse out. I hope she wasn't fired.
I saw what happened to my sister with my very own eyes. It was horrible. Do the friends you know who you accuse of having "anxiety" have lovers ones that went through similar things? Have you asked?
As someone with a diagnosed anxiety disorder regarding various things including irrational fear of throwing up, I understand WHY people develop these avoidant behaviors. It seems safer, who cares if you miss things, life is better alive. However, there is a balance. I had to go to therapy to go on an international flight, I had a total breakdown before I got married, and had many panic attacks at the beginning of Covid. When my daughter had her first bout of stomach flu I physically recoiled as she gagged and I had to remind myself IтАЩm the adult in this situation and I canтАЩt run away (it was actually very helpful). I now have adrenal insufficiency due to immunotherapy and legitimately end up in the hospital if I throw up. Through my behavioral тАЬtrainingтАЭ IтАЩve managed to walk myself off the тАЬledgeтАЭ of anxiety despite potential risk because itтАЩs unrealistic to hide from it. ItтАЩs hard, but if you donтАЩt look at things realistically (what is the ACTUAL risk to YOU) the anxiety will take over and youтАЩll end up never leaving your home (extreme, but my mom is like this). Masking in public and avoiding large groups isnтАЩt bad, itтАЩs realistically helpful (assuming right mask). But if you avoid meaningful family gatherings, stop engaging in hobbies, or end relationships over it... it might be too much.
I mean my mom is dead and my sister is disabled and I work 7 day weeks so we don't really have family gatherings. Re: hobbies, my hobbies were playing my modular synth and writing which are solitary anyway. I didn't end relationships over covid caution, I lost friends who said shit such as "viruses don't exist and your low 02 readings when you had "covid" were from masking." I was in the ER with covid induced tachycardia from omicron and was terrified. So yeah. Super fun times. Ah, and my other friend who said "I don't know if I can engage with your sisters "illness" the week she had a fucking cardiac arrest and her heart had to be restarted. That essentially shattered my heart and I haven't really gotten over it.
I find it so interesting when people say the "never leaving your home" thing to me when I work 7 days a week and take multiple buses and trains a day in and out of different residences for my job. I have had to go into hospitals to visit my sister and provide car for her up close and personal upon her discharges. I have lupus & emphysema and probably take more risks than most people because of my responsibilities. My roommate works at a supermarket and is a bit of a drunk/druggie so I know he wouldn't mask even if I asked (though he did say he would try to get my landlady to evict me if the govt mandated a new booster and I didn't get it...lmao) I'm sorry your mom takes a level of covid precaution you find unreasonable, that sounds frustrating.
I wasnтАЩt talking about you specifically (poster before mentioned people who live by their anxiety disorders, you acted like that isnтАЩt a thing). I was demonstrating how it is, in fact, a thing and people get caught up in their anxiety. Some of us are unlucky and get the shit cards in life. I am one of those too (2 cancer dx at 29, adrenal insufficiency, dependent on multiple medications to live, chronic pain) just donтАЩt let it consume you.
You sound like you have it rough right now, and IтАЩm sorry for what you have to experience.
I asked OP what DSM-V (are we still V? Has it updated?) Criteria for anxiety disorders their friends met via their covid precautions. Taking precautions against a deadly virus was the only diagnostic indicator she stated for this diagnosis, so I wanted know how exactly they fit the criteria. I'm sorry if it came across like I said anxiety disorders weren't real. I do know that so many women die from heart attacks and cardiac arrests because their symptoms are written off as anxiety. I am wary of medical gaslighting as I've seen it happen.
I am sorry to hear about your cancer! I hope you live a long, happy, and healthy life and I wish you no ill will and hold no animosity toward you or OP. Thank you for your kind words.
I think LC is a serious phenomenon for some people who caught the OG (and probably second) variant. IтАЩm somewhat more skeptical of the penetration and severity for those who caught milder variants post-vaccination.
Interesting
There's a decent chance we'll see a wave of mycoplasma pneumonia this year. I'm very curious to see if the parts of the internet that are still insisting that 10% of Covid cases lead to Long Covid will start going on about Long Mycoplasma or Chronic Mycoplasma.
I hope you and those you love never have to experience long covid. I hope nobody you love ever has a covid induced stroke or clot or dissection or aneurysm or weeks to months after infection. I hope nobody you love calls you in terror 4 months post infection because they have suddenly forgotten where they live. Long covid is real I saw it happen to my sister with my very own eyes.
And if the above happens to you or someone you love, I hope nobody tries to tell you it isn't real.
I know several people who have or have had the delayed recovery type of long covid. I also worked in healthcare during the start of the pandemic so I know full well that the more severe types of long covid are real. I've also seen how people who are vaccinated are so much less likely to develop any type of Long Covid.
That's why I'm so frustrated with social media influencers who exaggerate the chance of developing Long Covid or link it to fake diseases like adrenal fatigue. They make Long Covid look like a mass hysteria that mostly affects affluent women. I also know a couple of fully vaccinated people who have developed anxiety disorders around avoiding SARS-cov2 infections and are now arranging their lives around avoiding the virus. Those online influencers are reinforcing the things that their anxiety disorders tell them.
By "developing their lives by arranging their lives around avoiding the virus" do you mean masking and avoiding crowds? Can you be specific as to what criteria for anxiety disorders as outlined in the DSM they meet per their covid precautions?
I watched the closest person in the world to me suffer a cardiac arrest and arterial dissection in her brainstem from covid infection. I watched her develop long covid. I watched the utter and complete callousness of people I thought loved and cared about us dismiss and deny what happened to her. I cannot afford having what happened to my sister happen to me. Therefore, I mask on buses, trains, and in stores. I avoid indoor restaurants (I'm on EBT so it's not like I can do that anyway). I rinse 2x a daily with cetylpyridine mouthwash which is proven to lower viral loads, and I take supplements that degrade the spike protein (NaC, quercetin, vit C, vit D.) .
I was 3x jabbed with Pfizer when I got covid and I was sick for months. I actually was in the hospital for a bit during a bad bout of tachycardia and a forlorn looking nurse TOLD me she was seeing the boosters kill people and that just as many vaxed as unvaxed were dying. I'll never forget that, I cried so hard in terror and fear that the doctor had to shoot me up with Ativan and they sent that nurse out. I hope she wasn't fired.
I saw what happened to my sister with my very own eyes. It was horrible. Do the friends you know who you accuse of having "anxiety" have lovers ones that went through similar things? Have you asked?
As someone with a diagnosed anxiety disorder regarding various things including irrational fear of throwing up, I understand WHY people develop these avoidant behaviors. It seems safer, who cares if you miss things, life is better alive. However, there is a balance. I had to go to therapy to go on an international flight, I had a total breakdown before I got married, and had many panic attacks at the beginning of Covid. When my daughter had her first bout of stomach flu I physically recoiled as she gagged and I had to remind myself IтАЩm the adult in this situation and I canтАЩt run away (it was actually very helpful). I now have adrenal insufficiency due to immunotherapy and legitimately end up in the hospital if I throw up. Through my behavioral тАЬtrainingтАЭ IтАЩve managed to walk myself off the тАЬledgeтАЭ of anxiety despite potential risk because itтАЩs unrealistic to hide from it. ItтАЩs hard, but if you donтАЩt look at things realistically (what is the ACTUAL risk to YOU) the anxiety will take over and youтАЩll end up never leaving your home (extreme, but my mom is like this). Masking in public and avoiding large groups isnтАЩt bad, itтАЩs realistically helpful (assuming right mask). But if you avoid meaningful family gatherings, stop engaging in hobbies, or end relationships over it... it might be too much.
I mean my mom is dead and my sister is disabled and I work 7 day weeks so we don't really have family gatherings. Re: hobbies, my hobbies were playing my modular synth and writing which are solitary anyway. I didn't end relationships over covid caution, I lost friends who said shit such as "viruses don't exist and your low 02 readings when you had "covid" were from masking." I was in the ER with covid induced tachycardia from omicron and was terrified. So yeah. Super fun times. Ah, and my other friend who said "I don't know if I can engage with your sisters "illness" the week she had a fucking cardiac arrest and her heart had to be restarted. That essentially shattered my heart and I haven't really gotten over it.
I find it so interesting when people say the "never leaving your home" thing to me when I work 7 days a week and take multiple buses and trains a day in and out of different residences for my job. I have had to go into hospitals to visit my sister and provide car for her up close and personal upon her discharges. I have lupus & emphysema and probably take more risks than most people because of my responsibilities. My roommate works at a supermarket and is a bit of a drunk/druggie so I know he wouldn't mask even if I asked (though he did say he would try to get my landlady to evict me if the govt mandated a new booster and I didn't get it...lmao) I'm sorry your mom takes a level of covid precaution you find unreasonable, that sounds frustrating.
I wasnтАЩt talking about you specifically (poster before mentioned people who live by their anxiety disorders, you acted like that isnтАЩt a thing). I was demonstrating how it is, in fact, a thing and people get caught up in their anxiety. Some of us are unlucky and get the shit cards in life. I am one of those too (2 cancer dx at 29, adrenal insufficiency, dependent on multiple medications to live, chronic pain) just donтАЩt let it consume you.
You sound like you have it rough right now, and IтАЩm sorry for what you have to experience.
I asked OP what DSM-V (are we still V? Has it updated?) Criteria for anxiety disorders their friends met via their covid precautions. Taking precautions against a deadly virus was the only diagnostic indicator she stated for this diagnosis, so I wanted know how exactly they fit the criteria. I'm sorry if it came across like I said anxiety disorders weren't real. I do know that so many women die from heart attacks and cardiac arrests because their symptoms are written off as anxiety. I am wary of medical gaslighting as I've seen it happen.
I am sorry to hear about your cancer! I hope you live a long, happy, and healthy life and I wish you no ill will and hold no animosity toward you or OP. Thank you for your kind words.
I think LC is a serious phenomenon for some people who caught the OG (and probably second) variant. IтАЩm somewhat more skeptical of the penetration and severity for those who caught milder variants post-vaccination.