Dr. D.

The overlap in “long covid” and significant hypochondriac mental illness is very real. And you all know this based in the people you personal know with long covid. It’s like a personality trait. Always a victim. And boom. They get the Lon’vid too? What are those miserable chances? The odds that someone so screwed by everyone already also now had the Lon’vid. They already have constant pain. Chronic fatigue and there isn’t anything they can eat that won’t kill them via allergy or give them the looseiest of stools. Everything often neatly and meticulously recorded in a stack of notebooks that you can review. These people don’t have anything real going on other than a psychiatric disorder and this is why nothing works for them. And then there are the real cases. Which are also difficult with very little evidence that anything benefits (though every weird drug has been tossed at it). I think it’s often a relative mitochondrial dysfunction and will get better over time but is best fixed by exercise and sleep. I’ve read some promising experience with SS-31 and MOTS-c. And these people tend to be motivated to actually get better. The thing is to try to find a real case you have to wade through so much mentally ill bullsh*t brought by those that glom onto the diagnosis but don’t have it and they are exhausting.