Could you get PTSD from your pandemic experience? The long-term mental health effects of coronavirus [cnbc.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/21/204:00 AM

By Cory Stieg, CNBC, April 18, 2020

Experiencing intense flashbacks, nightmares, irritability, anger, and fear? In the face of a traumatic event like the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s common to feel this way.

While many people associate post-traumatic stress disorder with something like war, it’s a chronic psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, such as a serious accident, terrorist attack or a physical assault.

After the SARS outbreak in 2003, both healthcare workers and people who were self-quarantined exhibited symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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