"This assault on my mind. Please help me." Many experience ‘long COVID-19’, wherein they struggle with symptoms long after initial infection. While it is important to discuss the physical aftermath of battling COVID-19, it is also of great importance to discuss the mental health effects. An article published recently in The Wire draws attention to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and COVID-19 with some patients wracked with fear they will contract the disease once more. The article by Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni, a senior psychiatrist at the Manas Institute of Mental Health in Hubli, Karnataka, centres around the story of forty-year-old Bengaluru businessman Mahesh whose first visit to a psychiatric hospital came following his earlier experience with COVID-19. Kulkarni cites Mahesh’s remarks during a clinical examination, in which he expressed “the nightmares just won’t stop. I wake up every night shaking with this intense fear that I will contract COVID-19 once again. I wake up … Read Full Article about PTSD and COVID-19: A conversation we need to have
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