unpopular opinion is not the same thing as academic literature lol makes sense.
Though I found the points to be well thought it (if not clearly written in a rush).
Also to be fair given the post, they could likely be a med student or something. Most people aren’t aware of the specific biological factors they listed nor some of the conditions, as OP used some medical terminology not often seen used by layman.
Yeah thats how it sounds to me 😂
Its patient blaming all the way in my (non-official) opinion
That’s only in some schools of thought of psychology.
There are plenty of praticing psychologists and psychiatrists (some of my colleagues) who genuinely believe and publish research along the lines of “all mental illness are caused by thoughts and behaviours”. Research that in my opinion is heavily flawed, but still published and peer reviewed, so a lot of people in the field think this way.
As a neurologist (specialising in post-viral illness) I don’t have the expertise to comment on points 2 and 3 of your post, but point one is completely correct.
As a neurologist, who has recently specialised in Long Covid. I’d say 95% of studies in the field are untrustworthy.
As with any health condition where the biological factors are unknown, a group of psychiatrists and psychologists, the same that targeted autoimmune diseases before they were proven to be “real”, have flooded the field claiming patients are suffering from hysteria or psychological issues.
None of their studies manage to prove anything whatsoever. They have published thousands of studies which go something along the line of: “People with long covid have more mental health issues, therefore, long covid is not real, but caused by hysteria”.
This proves no correlation whatsoever though. Every single chronic illness / disability has higher rates of mental health issues, yeah turns out being poor and marginalised + loosing a lot of what you had in life + chronic pain is not good for your mental health. In fact studies have found that before the covid infection these people have the same rate of mental illness as the normal population.
This is just one example, but legitimately > 90% of psychiatry / psychology studies I read in my field are extremely poorly done to the point of being worthless or even harmful.
There’s also a problem in that genuine biological studies get reported on really poorly by the mainstream media. I co-authored a paper showing that in 3 tests of cognitive function, spread over three days, people with long covid did not preform worse than the general population. However, if you made them do these three tests in a row, people with long covid would preform markedly worse than healthy controls, so they have a problem with cognitive endurance.
A handful of news outlets reported on this, and oftenso the news articles did not include the second part of the study, just saying “people with long covid do not have cognitive dysfunction” or “brain fog debunked”. There’s really a push from the right to delegitimise long covid and it is hurting scientific integrity hard.
That’s not how these collegues treat them.
They act like you can basically “think yourself out of” most mental illnesses.