The Long Covid Collective

Hi Jemma, I stumbled on your account having been in a rut since I was infected with post Covid back in 2022. It Left me practically half paralysed. Thankfully that is no longer the case. My brain was also no longer functioning normally and it was like I had a split personality living from the outside looking in. I knew something was really wrong when I screamed and yelled at my best friend who was 8 months pregnant at the time. I was never a violent person. I also nearly burnt our house down, twice, because I forgot to turn off the stove (thankfully my husband woke up in the middle of the night and smelled the gas). Etc. Etc.  Anyways… As you know, all in all, I had countless symptoms/ incidents(cognitive and physical). I was labelled (like many others) burnt out/ psychosomatic. But, to me it wasn’t logical, it…

Hello everyone,

I would like to share my story.

I was at the half-point mark of my PhD in chemistry and at the time practicing for a half-marathon while trying to maintain enough muscle for my long-term goal of participating in a body-building competition some day. I had just been lifting 80 kg 3X12 times and ran 14 km on the weekend in good time and 2 weeks later I cannot get up from bed to get a shower. And mental tasks are even worse up to the point that I got dizzy from reading only a few sentences. And all this is here to stay....

I took a huge part of my mental health and feeling of self-worth/self confidence came from sport and a bit from telling myself that I am halfway intelligent person for being able to do a PhD. Needless to say, that now depression is creeping…