Depression from corona vaccination?
Neurologist makes a statement: "mRNA active ingredient does not reach the brain at all"
Created: 12/20/2021, 4:28 PM
From: Juliane Gutmann
Vaccination can cause temporary side effects such as headache.
But can depression also be triggered?
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Covid-19 can damage not only the lungs, but also the nervous system.
Even the psyche can be damaged.
But does that also apply to vaccination?
The pandemic has some downsides. Not only Corona itself is a danger. Lockdowns and other infection control measures have led to closed schools, fears of existence among employees and a lot of bad mood.
But for some it was not just frustration at the lack of Christmas markets and closed clubs.
Doctors are observing an increase in mental illnesses in the corona pandemic, such as increased depression.
A study by researchers from the Boston University School of Public Health showed that symptoms of depression, such as listlessness and lack of interest, among Americans tripled during the pandemic compared to the previous year.
And experts are also observing such a trend in Germany
. Children are also affected. According to a survey in 21 countries by the German press agency dpa, every fifth person between the ages of 15 and 24 “often feels depressed or has little interest in doing things”. This emerges from a Unicef report published in October 2021, for which children and young adults in 21 countries were surveyed. so the dpa.
The corona-related changes are a major challenge, especially for people with depression, according to the German Depression Aid Foundation.
Because in a depression everything negative in life is brought to the fore, including worries and fears about the coronavirus
, it continues.
The foundation provides support for those affected on its website.
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The pandemic-related changes in everyday life, but also Covid-19 itself, can result in depression *. But what about the corona vaccination? Can this also trigger depression? Such questions and misinformation circulate and circulated mainly on social media and messaging services like Telegram. Experts can clearly disagree here. The Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation quoted Dr. Sabine Köhler, Chairwoman of the Professional Association of German Neurologists on the subject: “Mental illnesses are diseases of the brain. The mRNA active ingredient, which leads to the development of antibodies against the virus, does not even reach the brain ”. The molecules contained in the vaccine would be too large to cross the blood-brain barrier.
In addition, according to Köhler, there is no data on an accumulation of depression or schizophrenic diseases due to the vaccination.
On the contrary: American researchers at the University of Southern California came to the conclusion in a study that a vaccination protects against depression.
For example, people who were vaccinated between December 2020 and March 2021 reported a lower level of psychological stress after the first dose, the researchers write.
According to
the results of the study,
even the risk of developing mild to severe depression would be reduced by corona immunization
.
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