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WHY YOUR BRAIN FEELS BROKEN

Pandemic stress and multitasking can affect memory in a real way.

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I don’t know how else to put it, but lately it seems like my brain is broken.
I’m not functioning with the mental quickness I’m used to. I find myself
struggling to locate words I want to use, like “vigilant” (it took me a full day
to remember it). Sometimes when I’m especially tired in the evenings, I will
trail off midsentence, and when my husband asks a follow-up question I will have
completely lost my train of thought — it drives him bonkers.

I’m not the only one feeling fuzzy in this way. Anecdotally, I have heard from
many parents that the multitasking, stressors and lack of sleep brought on by
this Covid year have created a kind of mental overload. And it’s not just
parents, either. As a sketch on “Saturday Night Live” that could serve as our
pandemic anthem expressed it, “I was fine in the fall but now I’ve hit a wall
and I’m loco, as in my brain done broke-o.”







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