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Psychiatrists Call Patients Recovering from Covid-19 at Greater Risk of Getting Mental Illness

PR CIREBON – Patient Covid-19 that get well tends to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, he said psychiatrist on Monday, November 9 yesterday, after a research large found 20 percent of those infected with the Corona virus were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days.

Anxiety, depression, and insomnia are the most common among patient Covid-19 which recovered deep research who develop mental health problems, and the researchers also found a significantly higher risk of dementia, as well as brain disorders.

“People worry that they are get well from Covid-19 will be at greater risk for mental health problems, and our findings suggest that this is possible, “said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford UK, quoted Pikiranrakyat-Cirebon.com from Reuters.

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Researchers reveal that the group of survivors Covid-19 were twice as likely to suffer from a new mental illness than the group patient others during the same period.

“This is likely due to a combination of the psychological stress associated with this pandemic and the physical effects of the disease,” said Michael Bloomfield, consultant. psychiatrist at University College London not directly involved with research the.

Harrison appealed to doctors and scientists around the world to immediately investigate the cause and identify new treatments for mental illness after Covid-19

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