Psychotic impulses afflict some recovered COVID-19 patients

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A mural by the German artist Case depicts mental health problems on the walls of the city center in Manchester, England, on October 15, 2020.

The virus that kneeled the world last year continues to spread the mysterious sequence of possible consequences.It is already known that you can have COVID-19 (new coronavirus infection) (# If there is no character limit, add parentheses when it first appears You may not even know it because you may be asymptomatic or die of illness in days or weeks. Mild or severe symptoms may occur, from coughing and fever to loss of odor and taste, blood clots, and diarrhea. You can be a “long haul carrier”. Even months after the virus cleared the system, he is still sick.

And now, doctors say they have seen a small number of notable numbers of people who have no history of mental illness and have recovered from COVID-19 develop severe mental illness in the weeks or months that follow. The New York Times.

Case reports of people admitted to the hospital after recovering from COVID-19 and then complaining of auditory hallucinations, hallucinations, suicides and suicides of others are increasing. Although doctors have just begun to see in the aftermath of some COVID-19 infections, the psychosis caused by the infection is not new to epidemiologists.

According to the paper published in Neuroscience Letter:

Literature suggesting a link between infections and psychosis can be traced over centuries, but dating back to the 17th and 18th century discussions of “influenza psychosis”, certain, predominantly respiratory infections were temporary. It was recognized that it was associated with acute psychosis. Most notably, hundreds of cases of post-influenza acute psychosis were reported during and after the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic.

The good news is that mental illness can be temporary, but like everything else in COVID-19, many are still certainly unknown.

Hearing a voice urging her mother to kill her child, another woman associated the red color with those who wanted to kill her, and the man woke up and said, “You should die today!” Then I tried to “cut my neck with a knife”.

GettyA patient with a mental illness is sitting in a chair in his room at the Villevrad Mental Hospital in Sandoni, northern Paris, on November 3, 2020. – The first confinement results related to Covid-19 have just begun. Fallen as a psychiatrist at Ville-Evrard’s mental health facility on the outskirts of Paris, fearing a second “psychiatric wave.”

Two things that are common to a small group of patients diagnosed with psychotic symptoms are that they were all infected with COVID-19 but did not previously suffer from psychotic disorders.

New York Times A 42-year-old physiotherapist with no history of mental illness wrote that he was suddenly struck by the fantasy of killing four children and made plans for how to do it. According to the paper, the voice that was telling her to do those things also told her to commit suicide.

A 52-year-old man who tried to take his life just by surviving COVID-19 and developing paranoia Another case study. He had no history of psychosis, but had the delusion that it was the cause of COVID-19 and fell into akinetic mutism — or don’t talk. He sought medical treatment, which helped temporarily, but when paranoia came back, he woke up and said, “Today I should die! According to a case study, knife his neck. I cut it with.

After being admitted to the hospital for further treatment, he “tried to cut his wrist from the breakfast tray with a plastic knife,” the case study reported.

Psychosis in a 55-year-old woman develops after a seizure at COVID-19 and is described as having hallucinations and “delusional delusions with color symbolism that attributed the red color to those who tried to kill her.” I will. Case Study Explanation.

According to a case study, she was admitted to a mental hospital and was described as doing strange things such as washing her cell phone in the sink and repeatedly brushing her teeth with soapy water. The woman also reportedly believed that the relatives she made the video call with were not actually her relatives, but were replaced or hijacked by another group.

According to the doctor, the patient had no history of mental illness.

The New York Times writes: “Sure, doctors have reported similar cases across the country and around the world. A small number of Covid patients who have never experienced mental health problems have severe psychotic symptoms weeks after being infected with the coronavirus. I have developed. “

Doctors are trying to get the affected patients back to normal with strange phenomena, including electroconvulsive therapy.

GettyA photo taken at the Sainte Anne Mental Hospital in Paris on February 5, 2007 shows a doctor practicing electroconvulsive therapy for a patient.

Doctors have explained that they will try different medications, detailed screenings, and hospitalizations for patients who may develop psychosis after recovery from COVID-19, but the two cases are not the same and each is not the same. It required a kind of trial and error approach.

For a 52-year-old suicide man, he eventually underwent six sessions. Electroconvulsive therapy His case report said before his suicide urge subsided.

The New York Times reported that the mother, who had homicidal ideation and planned to kill her child, spent four weeks in the hospital before going home.she is Risperidone, Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Dr. Hisam Goueli said in this treatise: Will this eventually disappear? Will people get better? How long does it usually take? As a result, do you tend to have other mental problems? There are many unanswered questions. “

A 55-year-old woman suffering from delusions slowly meandered and recovered. Her case study reports that she was discharged 20 days later at her own request, but she still had a delusional idea. She was also prescribed risperidone, but stopped taking it about a week later and reported that someone was trying to kidnap her, but otherwise it seemed to be working.

According to a case study, she said she had no symptoms of mental illness 52 days after her first hospitalization.

As doctors continue to learn more about the effects of COVID-19 on various systems of the body, the authors of the Neuroscience Letter may provide insights into the brain factors that lead to psychosis in this particular distress. thinking about.

“With the tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic, there may still be opportunities for a deeper understanding of nullifying mental illness,” they wrote.

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