The Guilt, Anxiety, and Shame That Can Come With a Covid-19 infection
Elad Simchayoff talked to people about the symptoms of Covid-19 that people don’t always talk about—the emotional toll of finding out you got the virus and may have passed it to others. One person said:
The first 24 hours were spent calling patients and friends, telling them I’m positive and that they need to go into isolation. It was terrible. A day before I was diagnosed, I took a car ride with a good friend who’s pregnant. It was a short trip and unfortunately, we weren’t 100% following guidelines. My biggest fear was that I infected her, I couldn’t sleep at night. It is an awful feeling. Luckily, I didn’t infect anyone, but even to cause people to go into isolation, lose work days and money, it’s a terrible feeling of guilt.
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