Some COVID-19 Patients Getting ‘New-Onset Psychosis,’ Doctors Say
A small number of recovered COVID-19 patients who had no previous history of mental health problems are developing severe psychotic symptoms, the New York Times reported.
Medical experts have observed multiple instances in the U.S. and globally of patients who’ve recovered from COVID-19 later developing “profound psychosis,” The Times reported. One New York City patient tried to strangle his cousin in bed after experiencing delusions about his cousin murdering him, and another patient in North Carolina developed paranoia about her children being kidnapped. The mother tried to save them by passing them through a fast-food restaurant drive-through window.
Murder plots, hallucinations, paranoia: post-Covid psychosis is emerging in a small number of patients. While it’s expected to remain rare, doctors worldwide have reported a smattering of cases. Most had no history of mental illness and became psychotic weeks after contracting the virus. Cases are expected to remain rare but are being reported worldwide.
A British study has found that 10 of 153 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 experienced “new-onset psychosis,” while another study identified 10 patients with similar symptoms in one hospital in Spain.
Dr. Hisam Goueli, a psychiatrist in New York, told the Times that he was unsure whether COVID-19 was related to the psychological symptoms he saw in multiple patients, but it was notable that most patients who developed psychosis had no respiratory problems and didn’t get very sick from COVID-19. They were also largely in their 30s, 40s and 50s, which was striking because it’s “rare” to develop such symptoms of psychosis in this age range.
The cases of psychosis point to how COVID-19 can affect mental health and brain function, despite being initially thought to primarily cause respiratory distress. Recovered COVID-19 patients have experienced brain fog and memory problems, which may be caused by persistent immune activation, the Times reported.
The development of psychosis after recovery from infection isn’t limited to COVID-19. The 1918 flu, SARS, and MERS also were connected to such cases. Effects depend on which region of the brain the immune response impacts, which may cause some people to “have neurological symptoms, some people psychiatric and many have a combination,” Dr. Robert Yolken, a neurovirology expert at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told the Times.
It’s unclear whether genetic makeup or predisposition for psychiatric illness makes some people more likely to develop psychosis after being infected with COVID-19.
Doctors initially thought that the North Carolina woman’s symptoms reflected bipolar disorder, but didn’t improve with first medication. She was given an antipsychotic medication and discharged in a week. A 49-year-old man who heard voices and believes he was the devil needed several weeks of hospitalization before being discharged and later readmitted.
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New York Times? .. yeah, like I’m really going to believe anything they publish .. come on man!
Next they will tell us COVID-1984 is creating zombies. No, I’m serious, just wait for it.
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JaKo
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Well, this may be exactly what you asked for: a world of vaccinated zombies to get them all; there’s no defense against the almost dead.
I thing it may end up that way…
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4TimesAYear
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Maybe it wasn’t the COVID. Maybe it was the Remdesivir which was rammed down our throats through EUA, or Dexamethasone. The “vir” drugs are known for causing psychoses. I wouldn’t think Remdesivir would be any exception. Only it wasn’t tested. It was new. Emergency use authorization. Steroids are also known to cause psych symptoms, but my money is on the Remdesivir. Again, it wasn’t tested.
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Gary G. Kohls, MD
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I totally agree that any psych problems didn’t occur from the “disease” but rather from the drugs that are commonly used during hospitalization for Covid – 19.
The mainstream media – in bed with (or outright owned by) Big Pharma corporations – also have become Big Pharma shills because of 1] often hidden tax-exempts foundation support (the PBS Nightly News, for example, has been prominently supported by Johnson & Johnson (since their asbestos/talcum powder lawsuits were exposed) and, I believe the Gates Foundation and Judy Woodruff is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations); or 2] the huge advertising revenues from drug companies; or 3] the significant investments that the wealthy owners of Big Media ALL make in Big Pharma stocks are enough to totally muzzle the truth-telling of that news outlet. There is no truly unbiased, independent, investigative journalism going on in any of the Big Media corporations and they should be informed that they are being black-balled (and subscriptions cancelled) by every thinking person who has seen through the subterfuge. Gary G. Kohls, MD
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