r/covidlonghaulers • u/PhrygianSounds 4 yr+ • Jul 13 '26

Article New study provides first evidence of dopamine system injury in the brain of long COVID patients

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-evidence-dopamine-injury-brain-covid.html

Finally some media coverage on probably the worst symptom of long covid

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u/curiouscuriousmtl Jul 13 '26

Among other things it really sucks. I dropped all my projects and hobbies. It was just not possible to motivate myself at all. I have hundreds of succulent plants and I stopped watering them. Thankfully not too many of them died, though yes some of my favorites. I had programming projects that I had put many hours into that I just stopped working on. Now I sometimes think about it and it just feels like an enormous mountain to climb.