Please tell me you have it, too. At least then I won’t feel alone! I have trouble concentrating on tasks and I am inefficient with my time. People keep telling me, “Previously you said . . .” I don’t even remember TALKING about that, much less remember what I said. I have inertia. My room is a mess. There are emails I should answer. Yesterday’s mail is not opened. I have unanswered phone messages.
I am embarrassed about the above. I have nothing to complain about – honestly. People in Colorado are evacuating in front of a record breaking fire and people in Louisiana were hit with two hurricanes in a matter of days. I have food in the pantry, no health complaints and a job I like. My kids are OK. There’s no excuse for my lack of brain function.
I am fighting it the best way I know how. Now that the climate in Texas is no longer like living inside a dog’s mouth, I have started going for walks. I even started taking tango lessons. I am taking my vitamins. But if you call me and I sound a little confused for the first few minutes, bear with me. It takes me a little longer to get up to speed these days. I am not sure why, but it would make me feel better if it wasn’t just me. What about you?
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No kidding. And a case of pandemic procrastination. One cannot even blame it on post-COVID brain fog. It must be in the air.
Ditto…add on attention deficit tendencies. For example, started CV update in June, still incomplete. My letter of intent…… ????️.
filling my spare time with reading journal articles listening to webinars and lectures. Great idea it is a beautiful day!!!!! Exercise and sunshine nature’s endorphins. Thanks for sharing we’re not alone
Too much time on ones hands in the wake of pandemic anxiety and the shredding of cultural and social norms makes for disorganized thinking and action as the anchor of familiarity is lost. See The pandemic exposes human nature: 10
evolutionary insights PNAS by Seitz et al. October, 2020.
Sounds like what I have been experiencing.—but I thought it was a symptom of aging. I think I’ll go with pandemic fog instead!
Annette Olsen
Seems like it could be moving through grief? Lose of your husband, lose of social life, lose of the ability of showing our patients we care through a smile, lose of carefree society to go, do, enjoy things as we have in the past. Keep walking, listen to music, hum along, breath deep. Take care of you.
Yes… THIS☝️☝️! Keep swimming! You are NOT alone! ❤️ Jenna
Maybe there should be a new category added to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder related to living through a pandemic.
COVID induced brain fog? Is that where the word Covidiot comes from. I never thought I would live to see the degree to which medicine has been politicized, where so many remain silent about the manipulation that has nothing to do with science.
But it was best we all experienced the level of corruption and took note of those whose motives are unclean…if we do something about it. Because the corruption was always there and still is.
Great illustration!