#COVID brain fog

[bicycle-brakes]

I’m really curious to know if other ADHDers who’ve had COVID have more issues with their working memory than before? Granted, I’m still recovering, but while my body feels about 80% I can barely keep up with one of my recorded uni lectures with captions. Captions are usually The Thing that makes lectures much more accessible for me, but now they might as well not even be there.

[leelany-world]

This event broke me. I hope I can start posting my first fic for it today 💀

[16woodsequ]

[altheterrible]

Recent Google search: dextromethorphan overdose

[hellyeahsickaf]

brain fog is so stupid. Like what do you mean my body is in such rough shape I have nothing but my thoughts but also I can't think?

[pandemic-info]

Long COVID Looks Like Acute Infection in the Brain | Psychology Today

Key points:

Long COVID patients with brain fog have the biological signature of an acute infection in the brain.

50 percent of people with cognitive impairment from Long COVID improve after two years, but very slowly.

An effective interferon lambda response in the brain helps recovery from Long COVID cognitive impairment.

Researchers call for a clinical trial on the use of interferon lambda to treat Long COVID brain fog.

[adhdpie]

Something I desperately want ppl to know:

LONG COVID CAN LOOK INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM ADULT ADHD

If you are an adult who has never experienced ADHD symptoms until recently: you may have a form of Long COVID

many ppl who have it call ‘brain fog’. Its primary feature is being unable to concentrate & short term memory/working memory issues, which severely impairs executive function.

COVID-induced brain fog’s effect on executive function is essentially indistinguishable from ADHD’s effect on the same.

& brain fog is A VERY COMMON LONG COVID SYMPTOM

as the number of adults with executive dysfunction has shot up, i want people to remember this. Especially if they get an ADHD evaluation and are told they’re not ADHD

Because we are all disabled, and we deserve care and understanding no matter what disabled us

[citrine-elephant]

still a dog, but uglier!

[chumbyy]

in one window my friends are playing games in another window is the loudest music in the world in another tab is an izzzyzzz video i've already watched TIME 2 DRAW!!!!!!!!!

[worms-in-my-brain]

I’m always shocked how abled people are able to always be like. Doing things. If I don’t have like 3 full days of doing calm, ‘me’ activities a week (or some equivalent, i.e. four half days and one full day) I run out of spoons fast. I start to get incredibly stressed out and soon enough my system goes from usually having someone in front to being dissociated the majority of the time. I get brain fog and I can’t think. My body gets physically tired and weak as all my effort goes into whatever I’m doing instead of being calm.

I need to have time to engage with my special interests. I need to have time to rest my brain and body, both of which run out of resources relatively quickly.

Then I hear my friends saying they do, like, 2-3 activities every day, every single day, and the spaces between those activities are ALSO filled with doing things. Grabbing groceries in between class and a meeting with friends. Submitting something for the university paper between studying with a study group and getting a costume ready for a party. How?? I need to spend the whole day and all my mental resources on one thing.

It feels so unfair sometimes. I feel like I have less time in a day because my resources are so limited.

[daffi-990]

“They weren’t my type”

[itshyuka]

taehyun old man era ♡

[elierlick]

Ok this one got me 💀

[thoughtportal]

[9ofspades]

It’s disability pride month, and if you are disabled in the U.S. from Long Covid I want you to know that you’re not alone, and you’re valid in whatever you feel. Whether that’s sorrow at your new problems or rage at society for failing you, you are valid, and it is truly messed up that society is continuing to fail you.

[hellyeahsickaf]

Brain fog feels like cotton balls behind your eyes, packed so tightly that it's pressing on the inside of your skull until it hurts and just might push your eyes out. It makes words feel like you have to wade through molasses just to get from one to the next. Your train of thought hasn't even left the station yet because the conductor fell asleep