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by ahh 995 days ago
Psychosomatic illnesses are in fact quite serious, but they require psychological treatment, not lockdowns of society.
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gadders 995 days ago
"Results: Patients with post-COVID syndrome scored lower for emotional stability, equanimity, positive mood, and self-control. Extraversion, emotional stability, and openness correlated negatively with anxiety and depression levels. Conscientiousness correlated negatively with anxiety."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870488/#:~:tex....

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bugglebeetle 995 days ago
The incidence of heart attack and stroke increases significantly after COVID infection, so please spare us your appeal to “psychosomatic illnesses”:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8321431/

(I should get bonus points for this being a Swedish study as well, since every COVID denier loves to wave around their flag.)

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