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.
@Cheesealicious Sorry you're dealing with this.
Anecdotally I see a similar deterioration process happening at work, month by month for a couple of years now.
Tempers fraying, empathy disappearing, concentration failing, memory lacking, etc. Requiring all of my patience to continue to be the glue.
More or less impossible to know how much to attribute to covid every few months, to layoffs and other huge work/personal stressors, or to everything else horrible happening in our societies and the world. I would assume it's a combination of all of the above.
Less anecdotally, it seems more or less "certain" medically that covid / long covid can give symptoms similar to early onset dementia, and with 5-15% of the population with long covid at any given time... 🤷🏻♂️😬
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