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Feelings of exhaustion, irritability and mental fogginess are our bodies normal response to an abnormal year of pandemic life. Wenjin Chen/Getty Images
In recent weeks, Dr. Kali Cyrus has struggled with periods of exhaustion. I am taking a nap in between patients, says Cyrus, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University. I m going to bed earlier. It s hard to even just get out of bed. I don t feel like being active again.
Exhaustion is also one of the top complaints she hears from her patients these days. They say things like, It s just so hard to get out of bed or I ve been misplacing things more often, she says.
In recent weeks, Dr. Kali Cyrus has struggled with periods of exhaustion. I am taking a nap in between patients, says Cyrus, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University. I m going to bed earlier. It s hard to even just get out of bed. I don t feel like being active again.
Exhaustion is also one of the top complaints she hears from her patients these days. They say things like, It s just so hard to get out of bed or I ve been misplacing things more often, she says.
Some patients tell Cyrus they ve been making mistakes at work. Some tell her they can barely turn on the TV. All I want to do is stare at the ceiling. Others say they are more irritable.
For some people, the effects will last long after the pandemic is over.
Those are some of the findings in a new KPMG survey, with data collected between March 17-20 from 1,000 Canadians.
The current big anxiety, according to the poll, is that people have begun to let their COVID guard down. That’s a fear 89% expressed, and 87% said vigilance was crucial now.
If they did that poll today, the results would be more dire.
News of the third lockdown, which Wednesday ramped up into full stay-at-home orders, has likely plunged many people in Ontario into a slough of despond.
There are obvious psychological reasons why this lockdown feels so much worse than the others.
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In June 2020, Hannah (who wants to be identified only by her first name) was standing outside of her family home with her dad when he told her to stand still. He snapped a picture of the back of her head there were bald patches everywhere. I had a mini panic attack, she tells me over Zoom. I was like, Oh my god, I m literally going bald.
Hannah believes that she contracted COVID-19 in March 2020 (she doesn t have a positive test to prove it because testing wasn t widely available at the time); she s one of the 30 million people who ve been diagnosed with the virus in the U.S. She s also a member of another group experts call them the COVID-19 long-haulers. These are the people who are still dealing with COVID-19 symptoms, months after they ve tested negative for the virus. Think: shortness of breath, head-splitting migraines, a prolonged loss of their sense of taste and smell. They re still kind of a mystery
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