Brain Fog Quotes

“I felt a catch in my chest and a pulsing in my ears and then I felt calm and numb, with a fuzziness that I couldn't think through, much thicker than before.”
― Olga Trujillo, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder

“In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such government-sponsored project aimed at MCS.”
― Peter Radetsky, Allergic to the Twentieth Century: The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

“The neurological/cognitive symptoms are more characteristically variable than constant and often have a distinct fatiguing component to them. Especially common are cognitive ‘fog’ or confusion, slowed information processing speed, trouble with word retrieval and speaking or intermittent dyslexia, trouble with writing, reading, and mathematics, and short-term memory consolidation.”
― Bruce M. Carruthers

“The diagnostic criteria for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) define two distinct clinical entities. Cognitive impairment and post-exertional “malaise” (a long-lasting aggravation of typical symptoms, e.g., muscle weakness and cognitive “brain fog”, after minor exertion) are obligatory for the diagnosis ME, while chronic fatigue is the only mandatory symptom for the diagnosis CFS.”
― Frank Twisk

“I also don’t have much memory of going to the counsellor who told me I was anxious. Actually, this is a common theme across all of my anxious episodes - very hazy recollections of every day details, like dates and locations, but sharp-as-tack memories of the theories and ruminations that accompanied the episodes. Anyone else experience the same?”
― Sarah Wilson, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

“Do you find it strange that the COVID-19 vaccine was developed in just one year but Long COVID is still a mystery to the medical profession?”
― Steven Magee

“My head and heart pulled me in opposite directions. Sometimes, I wished I had only one of the two. Life would have been much easier if we were equipped with only one of those faculties because the collision of these mighty forces numbs the mind. In such circumstances, the mind receives excessive arguments from both ends, which it has to process to produce the final output, leading to a shutdown due to overload. Thus, in situations where making a decision seems necessary, no decision is made at all.”
― Namrata Gupta, White Horses Dark Shadows: A Modern Day Intense Romance | A story about finding True Love