>>Some very morbidly amused part of me wonders if COVID would come with the depression thing you get with a cold
Update from 2024, having now lost my COVID virginity (*sigh*):
Current evidence suggests no! I have distinctly not been depressed during this illness! Ranking the diseases I have experienced from least to most terrible, and counting only the effects I have noticed thus far, I think I would put this below my mildest-ever cold and above my second-mildest (those being the two non-depressive colds I have had).
(I do wonder, given that said second-mildest cold was also the most recent one, whether there is a new pattern developing. It *may* be pure luck, or I may have outgrown the overzealous sickness-behaviour response, or perhaps now that I know more about how to reduce viral load my body has less need to pull out all the stops.)
Still, regardless of whether it's *purely* luck, I may not be so lucky next time. (God knows there are a great many people in this world whose *first* COVID-19 infection went fine and it was the *second* where everything went to shit: one need only glance at Long COVID statistics to know that the world is not divided into the elect and the damned when it comes to COVID severity.) Let us hope the sample size remains small.
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Update from 2024, having now lost my COVID virginity (*sigh*):
Current evidence suggests no! I have distinctly not been depressed during this illness! Ranking the diseases I have experienced from least to most terrible, and counting only the effects I have noticed thus far, I think I would put this below my mildest-ever cold and above my second-mildest (those being the two non-depressive colds I have had).
(I do wonder, given that said second-mildest cold was also the most recent one, whether there is a new pattern developing. It *may* be pure luck, or I may have outgrown the overzealous sickness-behaviour response, or perhaps now that I know more about how to reduce viral load my body has less need to pull out all the stops.)
Still, regardless of whether it's *purely* luck, I may not be so lucky next time. (God knows there are a great many people in this world whose *first* COVID-19 infection went fine and it was the *second* where everything went to shit: one need only glance at Long COVID statistics to know that the world is not divided into the elect and the damned when it comes to COVID severity.) Let us hope the sample size remains small.