Lead sentence and we can’t get the name of the fucking virus right? The COVID-10, my ass! The state of journalism today…
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I'd like to know why conditions such as anxiety and depression make you more suseptible.
Not a doctor or in any way qualified to speculate but my guess would be if you're already having issues with chemical imbalances in the brain COVID has an easier time getting its hooks in deep so to speak. It seems like it would be easier to introduce long term chaos on a brain that already struggles with daily events than a "normally" functioning one, but I'm just guessing.
A sound argument for sure.
Likely underlying neuroinflammation. We're learning more and more about the role of neuroinflammation in psychiatric conditions. It's well-known that a lot of psychiatric medications have anti-inflammatory effects, and there have always been competing hypotheses to the monoamine hypothesis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6953590/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/jul/10/how-do-antidepressants-actually-work