Brain Fog Article in Law Society Gazette

[DokaGirl]

How to fix forgetfulness and woolly thinking

“Forgetting words, woolly thinking and a poor attention span are becoming increasingly common, but what’s behind it?”

There’s a similar article in the DT, appropriating and generalising our term of ‘brain fog’, it’s becoming part of everyday language. I still find it’s useful shorthand when I don’t want to go into an in-depth explanation of my cognitive issues, but it’s interesting how it’s likely the term will become diluted and devalued. Soon it will be like the equivalent of ‘oh yeah, I get tired too’ for this symptom.

Excellent point @hinterland. What else is going to be appropriated? PEM?

 

[Mithriel]

PEM is already appropriated. BPS studies have claimed their subjects had PEM but what they mean is they get worse with exercise but that is common to many diseases. PEM as we experience it has inflammatory aspects, physical exhaustion causes mental problems and vice versa, it is out of proportion to the exercise done, it can take an abnormally long time to resolve and onset can be delayed for up to 3 days with no apparent overdoing things at the time.

What I have is not brain fog that is a phrase akin to being tired meaning exhaustion. It is not forgetting what you went into a room for though that happens but forgetting how to get home or how the car door opens or how to get dressed. Plus things that are firmly in the brain damage category.