Even if long covid is entirely psychosomatic, it’s worth avoiding those psychosomatic effects. One way to avoid them is to debunk (potentially at the gut intuition level, which is harder to reliably do) non-psychosomatic causes of it. Another way is to avoid covid in the first place. I expect the most effective strategy will include some combination of these.
I see “psychosomatic” often used as a semantic stopsign. Once something is called “psychosomatic”, people typically stop trying to figure out a way to solve the problem. I don’t know of any reliable and credible ways to resolve psychosomatic issues, it’s mostly meditation guys and alternative medicine quacks who even try.
If it’s really true that a large amount of health-issues-in-general are psychosomatic, then that’s a really huge problem which we don’t have an adequate solution for! (I expect that you agree with this, I just am trying to push against the weight of the semantic stopsign that people have around this concept.)
Even if long covid is entirely psychosomatic, it’s worth avoiding those psychosomatic effects. One way to avoid them is to debunk (potentially at the gut intuition level, which is harder to reliably do) non-psychosomatic causes of it. Another way is to avoid covid in the first place. I expect the most effective strategy will include some combination of these.
I see “psychosomatic” often used as a semantic stopsign. Once something is called “psychosomatic”, people typically stop trying to figure out a way to solve the problem. I don’t know of any reliable and credible ways to resolve psychosomatic issues, it’s mostly meditation guys and alternative medicine quacks who even try.
If it’s really true that a large amount of health-issues-in-general are psychosomatic, then that’s a really huge problem which we don’t have an adequate solution for! (I expect that you agree with this, I just am trying to push against the weight of the semantic stopsign that people have around this concept.)