Kari explains why there needs to be more mental health support for people living with long COVID.

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I think the biggest thing is just that acknowledgement and that understanding that this is real, and people are struggling, and people are losing relationships, they’re losing homes, they are, the mental health side of long COVID is massive. It’s almost, I think, bigger than the physical part of long COVID. So, I think that’s where there needs to be more help for that. People can’t afford, you know, 250 dollars an hour for a psychologist. So, let’s provide something for them and I’ve, you know, I tried going to the local community, WCB put me in with a community psychologist. No. I think I went through two or three before I found one that I’ve clicked with, and felt understood. And people really, I don’t think you can get through long COVID without having some kind of mental help. It’s, because it is a loss, it’s a, you’re grieving your previous life and it’s a struggle. And I think the mental, like I said, the mental health aspect of this, I think is so much more significant that the physical part of it.

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