Understanding symptoms of psychological and cognitive problems during your COVID-19 recovery

What do these symptoms have to do with my diet?

Your emotional state can affect what you choose to eat, and some foods can be eaten as emotional comfort. This can lead to under and overeating.
Low mood, apathy and other symptoms can also prevent you from eating at all, hence affecting your nutritional status.
Other symptoms may lead to overeating (e.g. due to boredom or emotional eating behaviours) which causes weight gain and associated problems.

Resources

Find out if you have access to your local to self refer.

The Swansea Bay University Health Board has a which provides ideas for:

sleep issues
psychological wellbeing
further links to manage post traumatic disorder syndrome
care after being hospitalised.

The British Dietetic Association Critical Care Specialist group provides eating recommendations after critical illness – which may include some of the same symptoms.

Information includes:

How can I cut back on energy if I want to lose weight?

provides guidance for coping with stress, and Patient Guide – Critical Illness, Intensive Care, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [PDF]

Psychology Tools have guides for: , , and

Kirklees Council has advice on if you are looking for yourself or if you are worried about somebody else.

You can listen to a talk “”.

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