Post Covid mental health issues
Are you also dealing with anxiety, depression, anger issues, phobia and other such mental health issues post Covid ? You are not alone. There are a number of people who are reporting mental health issues post their recovery and mental health experts are advising people to work on healthy lifestyle as well as treatment including psychotherapy and medications. Recently a study at the Oregon State University (OSU) in the US found that Covid-19 patients had about 25 percent increased risk of developing a psychiatric disorder in the four months following their infection, compared with people who had other types of respiratory tract infections. The finding was published in the journal World Psychiatry. “People are coming to us developing various kinds of psychiatric issues mainly anxiety and phobia within a month or two having covid infection” says Dr Prashant Gohil, Consultant Psychiatrist, Ahmedabad. The most common psychiatric disorders which were seen are anxiety disorder, phobia, depres