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the strongest predictor for long Covid is having a previously diagonosed anxiety disorder, hinting that long covid is mostly placebo effect

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4905

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Anxiety is generally correlated with systemic markers of inflammation though, so there could be some hidden variables there. Perhaps having an overly sensitive immune system predisposes one to both anxiety and long Covid, or perhaps the physical effects of anxiety on the body predispose people to maladaptive immune responses to Covid, or etc. etc.

Physical (as in, clinical?!) anxiety can be the cause of what you know as anxiety.

Having had a doctor write me off as a hypochondriac because of physical anxiety I was experiencing due to a toxicity issue...I can safely say your medical beliefs are potentially dangerous to others.

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