With 205 symptoms listed for Long Covid, and over 2 million people affected - in England alone - Long Covid is a complex, dehabilitating multi-system illness that is affecting people on a scale not seen for generations.
But one of the most controversial aspects of the illness is the role that psychology plays - there is already extensive literature documenting anxiety and depression as symptoms, but whether psychology might play a role in recovery is a controversy that dates back to the use of CBT for ME/CFS.
Is there another way of looking at the interection of brain, body and mind though, given that there's a huge amount of science showing that what we think and feel affects what our body does on a physiological level?
In this presentation I made at the TLC conference on the 20th June, I discuss the improvement I have made in recent months and how I am currently looking at the interventions we need to make on a holistic level, which most definitely include the way we think and feel about the disease.
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