[SNS세상]Case of mental illness after corona infection “Hear a hallucination to kill a child”

In the United States, a case of a woman in her 40s who had no history of mental illness suffered from a hallucination of “Kill children” after being infected with Corona 19.

According to the New York Times on the 28th, a 42-year-old woman with four children told Dr. Hisam Guelli of a neuropsychiatric hospital in Long Island about her terrible symptoms. Working happily with her four children while working as a physical therapist, she confessed that from one day she heard hallucinations when she saw them and someone said “I have to kill them.”

After hearing the hallucinations, the patient confessed that he was planning to kill while watching children aged 2 to 10 years old. She said she had specific plans, such as hitting one of the children with a truck and killing the other with a neck. The patient confessed to the doctor in charge, “I love my children, and I don’t know why I feel that way,” and “It’s so terrible.” Dr. Guelli said, “The patient seemed to be the main character of the movie Kill Bill.”

The woman, who had no history of mental illness or family history, was infected with Corona 19 last spring and was cured with only minor symptoms. There were no physical problems, but soon afterwards, mental problems came.

Dr. Guelli, who runs a psychiatric treatment program for patients with COVID-19, said, “It is not clear at this time whether there is a link between coronavirus infection and patient hallucinations.” “But we’ve seen the second, third, and fourth cases. It’s true that something is happening,” said Dr. Guelli.

In fact, there are reports that patients in the United States as well as around the world have been found to suffer from symptoms of serious mental illness following COVID-19 infection.

A 36-year-old woman working at a North Carolina nursing hospital, delusional that her three children had been kidnapped, attempted to get them out of the window of a fast food restaurant.

A 30-year-old New York City construction worker thought his cousin was trying to kill him and tried to strangle his cousin in bed, and a 55-year-old British woman saw the welcome of monkeys and lions everywhere, and his family wasn’t a real family. I came to believe that he was a scammer who played. They all had the same thing that they had Corona 19 after having no previous psychological history.

In addition, the UK hospital announced the results of a study on 153 patients hospitalized with Corona 19 and found that 10 suffered from a new symptom of mental illness, which appears to be a’mental complication’.

Medical experts believe that the coronavirus can affect not only the body but also mental health, but only a very small number of patients. Experts analyzed that if the coronavirus affects the brain, it is related to the immune system response or an increase in inflammation during the progression of symptoms. “The neurotoxic substance could have traveled from the blood to the brain and caused brain damage,” said Dr. Wilma Gavey, head of the Monte Fiore Einstein Psychiatry Institute.

According to Dr. Hesam Guelli, most of the corona19 patients who showed symptoms of mental illness were relatively young in their 30s to 50s, and all of them had mild physical symptoms. They showed symptoms of infection, such as numbness, dizziness, headache, and poor sense of smell, and then a few weeks to months later, symptoms of serious mental illness. Dr. Guelli said, “It is very rare to develop psychosis at this age,” he said, and that the association with Corona 19 should be investigated.

In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. Guelli told the New York Times, “There are too many questions that cannot be answered, such as whether a mental illness from Corona 19 will improve, how long will it take if it is healed, and will it recur after that.”

The physical therapist’s mother, who had previously tried to kill her children, did not get better after using eight drugs, so she could not remember the children’s faces at one time. Fortunately, after more than a month of treatment, more than 90% of them were cured, and now they have returned to their homes with children, the media reported.

YTN PLUS Reporter Jeong Yoon-joo
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