When parents or patients come to me after months or years of suffering, they often start with the same question: “Why did COVID hit me (or my child) so hard when others bounced back?”
In my clinical experience, the answer is often not just the virus itself. Long COVID didn’t appear out of nowhere. It exposed vulnerabilities that were already there, especially within the nervous system.
I’ve watched Long COVID come into families like an uninvited houseguest and then refuse to leave. One day you’re “over it,” and the next you’re dealing with crushing fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, strange pains, a racing heart, sleep that doesn’t restore you, and a body that feels like it forgot how to be itself.
Here’s what I want you to know right away: you’re not broken. You’re not weak. And you’re not imagining this.