https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2024/08/21/innovationrx-covid-may-be-causing-mental-illness-and-rewiring-our-brains/

But as two new studies published in the past week show, severe COVID isn’t the only risk faced by those with the disease. New findings in JAMA Psychiatry find that levels of mental illness such as depression, anxiety and self-harm are elevated after a COVID-19 diagnosis. Additionally, a new study published in Scientific Reports found that patients who lost their sense of smell after a COVID infection saw long-term structural changes to their brains as well as a tendency to more impulsive behaviors.

What! Wow. I didn’t know that, you’re telling me now for the first time.

  • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    A lot of it is the kind of performative tough guy disingenuous angry macho bullshit where they want to be belligerent at someone without actually wanting a fight

    As thinky-felix pretty much said before, it’s the “BRO, YOU’RE FUCKIN’ LUCKY MY KID’S IN THE CAR OR I TOTALLY WOULD’VE KICKED YOUR ASS” kind of guy

    The kind of guy who thinks he could hold his own in the UFC if they pissed him off and got him drunk who has never trained in any martial art and hasn’t worked out since highschool ROTC