New Post-Covid Symptom in a minority of patients

March 2024 ยท 2 minute read

๐’๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐Ž๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ ๐’๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐๐ฌ๐ฒ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐’๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ

Almost immediately, Dr. Hisam Goueli could tell that the patient who came to his psychiatric hospital on Long Island this summer was unusual.

The patient, a 42-year-old physical therapist and mother of four young children, had never had psychiatric symptoms or any family history of mental illness. Yet there she was, sitting at a table in a beige-walled room at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, New York, sobbing and saying that she kept seeing her children, ages 2 to 10, being gruesomely murdered and that she herself had crafted plans to kill them.

โ€œIt was like she was experiencing a movie, like โ€˜Kill Bill,โ€™โ€ Goueli, a psychiatrist, said.

The patient described one of her children being run over by a truck and another decapitated. โ€œItโ€™s a horrifying thing that hereโ€™s this well-accomplished woman and sheโ€™s like โ€˜I love my kids, and I donโ€™t know why I feel this way that I want to decapitate them,โ€™โ€ he said.

The only notable thing about her medical history was that the woman, who declined to be interviewed but allowed Goueli to describe her case, had become infected with the coronavirus in the spring. She had experienced only mild physical symptoms from the virus, but, months later, she heard a voice that first told her to kill herself and then told her to kill her children.

At South Oaks, which has an inpatient psychiatric treatment program for COVID-19 patients, Goueli was unsure whether the coronavirus was connected to the womanโ€™s psychological symptoms. โ€œMaybe this is COVID-related, maybe itโ€™s not,โ€ he recalled thinking.

โ€œBut then,โ€ he said, โ€œwe saw a second case, a third case and a fourth case, and weโ€™re like, โ€˜Thereโ€™s something happening.โ€™โ€

Indeed, doctors are reporting similar cases across the country and around the world. A small number of COVID patients who had never experienced mental health problems are developing severe psychotic symptoms weeks after contracting the coronavirus.

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