Mastodawn

Cheesealicious Jul 10, 2024

Has anyone heard of covid reducing a person's emotional intelligence?

My mother has had covid 3 times now. Only 2 vaccinations and no masking. Each infection she started getting more and more disoriented every time we spoke over the phone. She also has chronic fatigue now. But also she seems to be losing her ability to empathize. It went from confusion over why people feel a certain way, to now not understanding why her actions hurt others.

#covid #longcovid

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David Mitchell

@Cheesealicious

Yes, this is very much a thing I’ve observed directly: a period of emotional dis-regulation lasting a month or two, with reduced emotional & intellectual processing following. We all have bad days, but now the bad days are ‘new normal’. I think mostly people are able to cover using social structures / attitudes / values from pre-infection, but for people who already struggled or lost connections it becomes quite evident.