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Brain scans reveal widespread structural and functional changes in patients following COVID-19 infection (www.psypost.org)

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[-] Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 76 points 19 hours ago

I feel like my brain never fully recovered after COVID, and now im just slightly dumber.

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Covid set off my menopause. So I have Covid brain and menopause brain. I've had to quit my job.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 37 points 15 hours ago

I tell my wife that COVID rewired my brain. My memory is shot, I don't enjoy things the way I used to and while I have eventually gotten my anxiety to a manageable level, it's still way higher than precovid. I unfortunately suffered 4 COVID infections over a 2.5yr span, and yes, I was vaxxed. I think I got a little more scrambled than most.

[-] sychthys@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Yo, same. Like, down to the number of infections, timespan, and being vaxxed. Anxiety spiked hard, memory is much worse, and my energy levels are just shot.

Thankfully Spravato treatments have me pretty much anxiety free again, but its been six years of hell with panic attacks and being unwilling to do normal things due to the anxiety.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 7 points 12 hours ago

Being able to recognize my anxiety triggers, and realizing that if I don't address it immediately, I'll just go into panic mode has helped me a lot. I am off daily anxiety meds now, but I still need the occasional Xanax when it breaks through.

I know long COVID has been described as typically a 1.5-2 year length, but I have permanently been affected. I've mentioned it in other posts before, but I have considered going to Portland to try a session of therapy through psychedelics since some testing shows that it tears down and renews neural pathways, almost like a reset switch.

[-] sychthys@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

That's awesome progress without psychedelics. Like, huge. I'm finally reducing daily meds after doing weekly Spravato treatments for about six months. It definitely seems to have rewired a few things. The ketamine seems to do something similar to psychedelics in that regard. Once I got a few good sessions in with solid time dissociating everything seems to have gotten so much better in respect to anxiety.