Long Covid Can Be Both Psychosomatic And Real
I’m very pleased to be running an excerpt from The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker by Dr. Suzanne O’Sullivan. Released earlier this year by Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House, this is a great book and you should buy it. Featured below is the second half of Chapter Two, “Lyme Disease and Long Covid.” The excerpt is almost entirely self-contained — all you really need to know going in is that the “chronic” variant of lyme disease, or CLD, has kicked up a large controversy. Because it sweeps in such a wide range of symptoms, and because sometimes people who believe they have it have no evidence of a tick bite — or even live in a place where there aren’t any Lyme-carrying ticks — CLD is a moving target that is very difficult to pin down. There’s strong reason to believe that some cases, at least, are psychosomatic. This does…
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6 months ago · 79 likes · 64 comments · Jesse Singal
