Lauren Chan, co-author of the study from OSU’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences, said: “For people who have had COVID, if you’re feeling anxiety, if you’re seeing some changes in how you’re going through life from a psychiatric standpoint, it’s totally appropriate for you to seek health. And if you’re a care provider, you need to be on the proactive side and start to screen for those psychiatric conditions and then follow up with those patients.”
Miss Chan added that it is advisable to seek help if people experience mental health struggles post COVID. “There could certainly be people who are struggling with new things like this, and they need that additional support or push to seek some help. I don’t mean to say that every single person who gets COVID is going to have this type of problem, but if you start to have concern for yourself or a family member, it’s not unheard of."
