I had a bad run of COVID ~18 months ago. Horrendous migraine one night, vision changes, brain fog since. The cognition's just not the same. I find it much harder to form complex thoughts, and sometimes I feel irrationally angry and racist. I'm not considered impaired bad enough for my GP to recommend rehab psych, but this is ... not great.What should I do? Is there any kind of psych help I should seek?
>>34273884COVID impacts on the brain are no joke. There is some evidence that taking N-acetylcysteine helps with the kind of neurological inflammation that it causes. Try to get direct sun exposure every day too as it helps with inflammation. Sleep and eat well. While it won't go away entirely, these things do gradually improve over time especially if you take good care of yourself. The NAC definitely helped me a bit and just over the years (been 4 years for me) things have improved by about 50%. If you ever get COVID again, take NAC, do this regimen to boost your immune system (https://www.hydro4covid.com/) and get lots of sun exposure to suppress the inflammatory fallout from your immune system. What a shitty fucking disease. It made me a lot more racist too though which is the one silver lining to it all
>>34273944Thank you for your advice, though>It made me a lot more racist too though which is the one silver lining to it allThis is 4chan and all, but this is a major departure from how I was before. It's easily the worst part. If I start getting annoyed about anything a brown person does, it rears its head. I haven't said a word, but keeping it penned in is awful. Worse, it's exactly that kind of compensating-bigot racism. A brown person is discussing something complicated and I can't follow it, get frustrated, it's all LOUD racial slurs.I just want my fucking brain back, dude.
>>34273987It took me a lot of wrestling with the despair of losing my old cognition but I've mostly made peace with it now, although my changes weren't as severe as yours. Start walking a lot, and get regular cardio if you can. Stay hydrated. You want to promote bloodflow to the brain to get it the nutrients it needs to heal. Don't count on major changes but over time through a combination of adapting and neurological healing things should get better as the years go by.
>>34274005Thanks, I'll keep at it. HIIT exercise, longer walks, adequate water, consistent calories (I really wasn't eating for the first 2 months :/).3 grams Omega-3's, 2 grams Lion's Mane (standardized), lipo curcumin, luteolin, CoQ10 all help. TAK-653 might be, but don't want to mess with AMPA signaling any more than COVID did.My best guess is it tore up the tiny blood vessels in the frontal lobes, and extreme inflammation gave me an inside-out concussion besides. I'm not a total lobotomite, but everything's different.I'll try to find peace. Grateful to hear you have, to some extent at least. God bless.
Yes it's like a TBI. Definitely look into the NAC. Hope you see some long term improvement.
>>34273884Another solution is to fasting, just follow how muslims fast, 30 days a year, or fast every monday and thursday and you'll be good."Fasting triggers autophagy by depriving cells of nutrients, which prompts them to recycle damaged or unnecessary components for energy and survival."
>>34274121I've heard that, but a bit wary. I wasn't eating well at all the first 2-3 months. So many foods triggered headaches, I was getting maybe 600 calories per day, often less. Almost certain I lost brain cells due to the drop in protein intake. 18 months on it's almost assuredly safer, but ...Any case, thank you for the advice. It's worth considering.
>>34274124Yeah I had major malaise after eating for the first year or two. It still happens to a limited extent where I get brain foggy after food (especially if I eat like something sugary on an empty stomach) but it's far better than it used to be.
>>34273884Find a doctor or clinic that knows about Long Covid.
>>34274330Working on it. Still on the waitlist for UW Long Covid Clinic, getting anxiety meds and general support from my GP, seeing a naturopathic doctor for low-dose naltrexone and craniosacral masseuse for the mind-body crap.
>>34273884Semax selank + cerebrolysin
>>34273884>covid made me racist
>>34274858Surprisingly common with frontal lobe damage.
