Psychiatric Disorder Comorbidity Can Cause Severe COVID-19

 

Recent findings say that people with mental health condition and contracted COVID-19 has more likely to develop a severe COVID-19 condition and even succumb to death than those who do not have.

Psychiatric comorbidity has a high risk having COVID-19 and other infections, the news said.

“People with depression or anxiety are at increased risk for all sorts of infections, not just Covid-19.”(Elemental)

“Why do psychiatric disorders increase one’s risk of infection and more severe disease following infection? In my paper published in the Frontiers of Neuroscience earlier this year, we detailed the “chronic stress response loop” concept. Herein, any stressors (including psychological ones like depression and anxiety) create a disorder in the interlinked body systems — such as the gut, nervous, and immune systems. This disorder is only short term once the stressor resolves, and the body later heals. The problem arises when the stressor becomes chronic, which hinders recovery, and the disorder persists. As a result, the body systems weaken and are less apt to deal with stressors — whether psychological or environmental. That’s why we see depressed people often stay depressed and get ill easier.”(Elemental)

“Common psychiatric illnesses, such as depression and anxiety, could make a person more prone to infections, as supported in theory and clinical settings. Considering the hundreds of millions of people with depression or anxiety disorders worldwide, it is not illogical to expect that psychiatric disorders account for a portion of the total health toll of infections — including Covid-19.”(Elemental)

 

The main point : Recent findings says psychiatric comorbidity can cause severe COVID-19 condition.

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