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Wellness Wednesday for October 26, 2022

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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I'm healing up from my first bout with COVID (vaxxed+boosted, had what felt like a mild flu for one day), and thinking about long-COVID. As somebody who has long had an anxiety disorder, the list of long COVID symptoms sounds pretty much like how I feel most of the time. And guess when my anxiety disorder got a lot worse!

I caught COVID on a work retreat to NYC and it was totally worth it. Getting to spend time talking to people, working with people, being immersed in a city where so much is happening, was amazing. There is nothing worse for our mental health than spending all our time in our houses on our computers.

I completely believe that there are people who have bad post-viral reactions. That's always been the case. But I also believe that much of this is uncontrolled anxiety and we need some kind of mass CBT/SSRI intervention.

some kind of mass CBT/SSRI intervention.

Doing strength training worked better for anxiety issues in studies on students, iirc.

One of the things I wonder about is how much anxiety / neuroticism in women is due to their physical inferiority to men.

E.g. were the shoe on the other foot and our species was like certain bird or lizard ones where females are bigger and stronger, would men be the more neurotic ones ? If you have a mostly personality matched group of powerlifters or such types, and say, runners, who has better mental health ´?

It’s important to realize the evidence for long Covid is pretty weak and limited to severe cases where hospitalization occurred and is likely secondary to delirium. Your chances of long Covid are very very low given your description

I think I got it too. Felt like in-between a cold and the flu. Sore throat for 4 days , some weird chills but not tired like a fever. Cleared up after 6 days. no vax, no obvious risk factors

I wouldn't worry about long COVID if all you got was a single day under the weather.