The Long Covid Recovery Blog
This blog brings together insights from my qualitative research into Long Covid, shared experiences from my peer support group, and reflections from my own ongoing recovery.
Through these posts, I hope to explore and make sense of what it means to live with and recover from Long Covid - and to offer ideas, encouragement and connection to others on similar paths. Keep an eye out for more posts over time.
Why mental health matters in Long Covid: A lived-experience perspective
Understanding and addressing mental health is essential for supporting people with Long Covid, yet it is often overlooked or misunderstood. I’m a social researcher with experience of Long Covid, and in this blog I summarise what my qualitative research into recovery from Long Covid tells us about Long Covid and mental health…
Long Covid: A different model of recovery?
During both my own recovery journey, and my research with others who have made a degree of recovery from long covid, one thing became increasingly clear to me: that recovery from Long Covid challenges our common approach to illness and recovery, as a healthcare system, a society, and as individuals…
The fine balance of Long Covid recovery
One of the most striking things I began to notice in my interviews with people who had moved towards recovery from Long Covid was the tension between two seemingly opposite qualities: determination to recover, and acceptance of ill health.
What does recovery from Long Covid look like?
Can we recover from Long Covid? The answer I’ve come to, based on this research, is: Yes - but…
Why research Long Covid recovery?
Finding a Way is research into how we can move towards recovery from Long Covid. The title was created by the Long Covid Support Group Calderdale. We wanted it to offer hope; to reflect that there is not just one, but many ‘ways’ to recover; to suggest that recovery is a journey; and to acknowledge that recovery isn’t easy…