{"product_id":"the-human-cost-of-long-covid","title":"The Human Cost of Long Covid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eWhat if the hardest part of your illness were not only its debilitating symptoms, but trying to make sense of a body that no longer follows the rules, where doing what you have always believed is healthy, like exercising more and pushing through, can actually make you worse?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eWhen Dr. Jasmin Tzortzakakis Malik first fell ill with COVID-19, she expected recovery. Instead, she entered a world of relentless fatigue, neurological disruption, fluctuating symptoms, and a medical system still struggling to understand what millions were experiencing. As a clinical philosopher, healthcare professional, and researcher, she has spent over 20 years helping others navigate illness, shifts in identity, and the search for understanding. Nothing prepared her for becoming a patient of a condition that science had barely begun to describe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eThe Human Cost of Long COVID\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e, Dr Malik blends lived experience with emerging research to show that Long COVID is not just a list of symptoms; it is a complex, interconnected multisystem disruption that affects the brain, immune function, metabolism, autonomic stability, and a person''s sense of self. With clarity and compassion, she offers a framework that helps readers understand what is happening beneath the surface and why recovery often feels unpredictable, fragile, and profoundly isolating.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eDrawing from her Adaptive Integration Framework, readers get the tools to:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e• Understand the science behind fatigue, brain fog, relapses, and multisystem symptoms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e • Recognise the emotional and identity shifts that accompany invisible illness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e • Reconnect with a body that feels unfamiliar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e • Navigate uncertainty with self-compassion rather than self-blame\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eThis is not just a medical text. It is a guide for anyone living with Long COVID, caring for someone who is, or supporting patients through chronic, post-viral illness. Dr. Malik brings together what research reveals, what patients live, and what clinicians need to understand, offering clarity in a landscape where answers have often been scarce.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eWhether you''re a patient, a caregiver, a clinician, or someone seeking to understand the deeper impact of this global condition, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003eThe Human Cost of Long COVID\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)\"\u003e will help you see the invisible, name the complexity, and recognise that although healing is rarely linear, it is possible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492211007861,"sku":"9781997730354","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781997730354.jpg?v=1786529039","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-human-cost-of-long-covid","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}