#Brainfog ist für mich so etwas wie ein Overload- bzw. Emergency-Shutdown.

Dann geht einfach erstmal für eine Zeitlang gar nichts mehr.

Woher er kommt weiß man nicht.
Was ich dagegen tun kann ist ganz krasse Ablekung, Austausch der Situation...
Also z.B. raus ausm Büro, Spazieren gehen für mindestens eine Stunde.

Präventiv lässt sich da nichts machen. Wenns passiert, isses zu spät.

A new study in Psychiatry Research (2024) uses #fNIRS to identify disrupted brain activity in #LongCOVID patients, linking these changes to persistent symptoms like fatigue and cognitive dysfunction

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159124007311

Kaum schlafe ich mal eine Nacht wieder fast gar nicht bzw. richtig beschissen, steigt mein Hirn nach 4 Stunden Arbeit wieder aus und quittiert den Dienst mit massivem #Brainfog.

Da hilft nichtmal das 1mg Nikotin -.-

An Irish woman with ME (who is a published author) blogs about a few of the brain fog problems she has experienced.

https://solongasicanbreathe.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/crossed-wires/

#brainfog @mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC @chronicillness
@spoonies

All my passwords are protected by severe brain fog

Schulung für das neue Ticketsystem.

Die Art wie das präsentiert wird ist so gar nicht kompatibel mit mir...
Mir macht da massiv der Kopf zu...

#Brainfog incoming.
Geil. Nicht.

Mist.

#Brainfog

I'm probably tempting fate but after 7 days of severe brain fog — so severe that for a few days I felt like a passenger trapped in a me sized, remote controlled cyborg.

Rethinking my allergic reaction as it's still going strong (gave up my 1 a day Matcha(=caffeine) habit just over a week ago). Though as I type this, it dawns that this might be the cause of my severe brain fog / disembodiment.

It's good to finally be getting back to feeling human or wherever I'm supposed to be.

It feels good to finally have enough dice / spoons / focus / energy / dilithium / micro-blackholes to interact with the fediverse again.

An article I won't link is titled "Brain Fog Is Here to Stay"

Imagine saying since the huge increase in brain fog after 2020 includes folks with who haven't been diagnosed with Long COVID, the brain fog can't be because of previous COVID infections.

I can see the placards now: No causality without diagnosis!

The author has brain fog herself, and she's clearly in a tremendously challenging local situation as her article does communicate, so fine, but her editors still OK'ed and published an article based on a ridiculous premise.

Last year, a large study of adults in the U.K. found that 28 percent reported brain fog associated with “functional impairments,” and while it’s tempting to chalk that figure up to long COVID, the version of the disease that can last for months or years, the survey didn’t bear this out. Long COVID was just one predictor of brain fog, along with migraines, concussions, and being a middle-aged woman. So, if it isn’t only that, what is fogging up our thoughts?

There ARE other causes of brain fog. Folks with ME/CFS have heard of "fibro fog"; fighters know of "punch drunk", the list goes on. Cases from 2018 and earlier weren't Long COVID, though many cases do seem to be postviral conditions.

But this logic is awful and the fact that editors would print a piece that is completely based on a fallacy - well I guess I know not to trust The Cut as a publication.

I won't link to it, to not give false logic the traffic.

I went out dancing for the first time in like 25y last night. Today my #brainfog is 75% lower than usual.

Coincidence?

i can't say that often... more like nearly never...
I had a really good week so far.
Lot of stuff that is actually exhausting/tiring, even without #LongCovid #brainfog, but so far: I am actually okay. And a lot, maybe all of it? war some sort of fun.
I actually enjoyed something. Didn't had this feeling in a while (aka mostly the past 5-15 years)
And I have nobody to dalk about it... #foreveralone

Accepting that today is just kind of a cruddy M.E. day where everything feels thick and buzzed out, including focus and enjoyment.

I'm struggling in the comfortable but bone weary state I think might be healing, but it's hard to relax into, because survival.

I continue to yearn for something like long covid recovery homes.

I think things would shift for a lot of people if they could just get a chance to rest deeply and be well nourished for a few months in a row.

Another day - another brainfog - another comic you can support by subscribing for FREE in Tapas (or read for free in Ko-fi) to spread disability awareness with me and help me survive March by maybe dropping me a braincell in ko-fi too? (:

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