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It is definitely psychological.

I was suffering daily after COVID when living still under lockdown.

I moved to a non-lockdown country (where the strategy is now herd immunity) and felt better immediately, and now have zero lingering symptoms.

Lockdown and Government restrictions are more suffocating than COVID.

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The effect of lockdowns on mental health is undoubtedly large, however I would hazard against ruling a very large number of people with numerous studies & epidemiologists behind them as purely psychological.

The number of people studied is very small. It certainly isn't evidence based enough for a report on Cochrane.

Fair point, however the intent of my reply was to not dismiss something as psychological when there isn’t an extensive study on the topic.

Perhaps your anecdata would be more convincing if you put "It _can_ definitely be psychological" because your claim sounds a bit absolute as is.

I can easily offer my own experience with covid symptoms that is quite different than yours but I wouldn't make an "it is" statement because of it.

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