Dr. Gabbay, who treated him at his hospital, said that brain scans, cerebrospinal fluid analyzes and other tests found no brain injury. Two patients Post-Covid psychosis: A 49-year-old man who heard voices and thought it was the Devil, and a 34-year-old woman who began carrying a knife, stripping her clothes in front of strangers and applying hand sanitizer to her food.
Reports indicate that most of these patients did not get physically ill from Covid-19. The patients Dr Guili treated did not have respiratory problems, but did suffer from subtle neurological symptoms such as hand tingling, dizziness, headache, or decreased odor. And then two weeks to several months later, he said, they “develop this deep psychosis, which is really dangerous and frightening for all the people around them.”
Also remarkably, most of the patients were in their 30s, 40s and 50s. “It’s very rare to have this type of psychosis at this age group,” said Dr. Joyley, because symptoms such as these usually accompany schizophrenia in young people or dementia in older patients. And some patients – such as the physical therapist who took herself to the hospital – realized that something was wrong, while “people with psychosis have no idea that they have lost touch with reality.”
Some post-Covid patients who developed psychosis required weeks of treatment in the hospital as doctors tried different drugs before finding one that helped.
Dr. Robert Yulkin, an expert in neurovirology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, said that although people may recover physically from Covid-19, in some cases their immune systems may be unable to shut down or they may remain involved. Due to the “delay in removing a small amount of virus”.
Persistent immune activation is also a major explanation for Brain fog Memory problems bother many Covid survivors, and Emily Severance, a schizophrenia expert at Johns Hopkins, said that the cognitive and psychological effects of post-Covid may result from “something similar happening in the brain.”