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Shantell Powell

I have a much harder time thinking these days. There are times I'm so tired that when I go to talk, I speak gibberish. I forget words all the time. Trying to find the word is like dragging my brain through a glue trap. I have a hard time reading any one thing for very long. I'm glad I can still write coherently, but I don't seem able to write much after supper. I'm also finding that I have an extremely hard time concentrating on much of anything after supper. I'm afraid I'll have to stop signing up for online evening classes because I can barely stay alert during them. It feels an awful lot like when I had mono back in 1989. #LongCovidAwarenessDay #LongCovid #Covid #BrainFog

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Valerie Roney

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.

#longCovid#brainFog#burnout
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bison ✅

And once again, only 2 hours and 10 minutes…
It's been 2 years since this started and I can’t get past the magical maximum of 2 hours and 30 minutes of focus. Anything beyond that is devastatingly exhausting. I slept through almost the entire Saturday because I pushed my limits on Friday.

**TL;DR:** A time input field showing "2h 10m". The image shows a dark gray interface with a time entry field. The text "Enter time" appears in light gray on the left, and the entered value "2h 10m" is in bold white. A thin orange line underlines the input, indicating active selection.
#LongCovid#COVID#covidisnotover
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Garth Coghlan

Somehow it's already March, but here is my #BookReview summary for 2024.

69 books this year! Which is getting up towards the glory years of the late 2010s. In last year's summary I noted that the number of books I had read had dropped, possibly due to reading more news & articles. I went cold-turkey on the news for a good chunk of 2024, so perhaps that helped get my numbers back up.

I read 25,486 pages (70 pages/day), compared to 20,500 in 2023 (56 pages/day).

My average rating is up to 3.6 stars, which is amongst the highest since records began in 2009. This is due to an unusually high proportion of 4 star books (33%, compared to 20-25% typically), and low proportion of 3 stars books. This isn't explained by a shift in genre, so I've either made some good book choices or was feeling particularly generous.

In keeping with the zeitgeist, I partly fell off the #DEI bandwagon by reading more male authors than I have been. But I maintained my level of non-White authors. I had thoughtlessly stopped explicitly selecting from my To Read list based on gender, but had continued to do so based on diversity. Just goes to show that it requires effort to push back against the systemic biases of society (did someone mention DEI?).
My slide into fiction dominance continues. I blame #BrainFog and the fact that life is too short to beat yourself up about reading choices.

Notables:
* Cosy fiction is a thing, and it's great: Try "A Prayer For The Crown-Shy" by Becky Chambers (5 stars) and "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldree.
* Fun Times in Hobart Town: "The Angry Women's Choir" by Meg Bignell (4.5 stars)
* Too Close to the Bone: "The Deluge" By Stephen Markley (4.5 stars)
* Traumatic Youth: "Lola In The Mirror" by Trent Dalton (5 stars), "Young Mungo" by Douglas Stuart (4.5 stars), "Jasper Jones" by Craig Silvey (4.5 stars)
* Horrifyingly Fascinating: "Plagues Upon The Earth" by Kyle Harper (4 stars) and "Nine Lives" by Aimen Dean (both 4 stars).
* Most Somnolent: "The Silmarillion" By JJR Tolkein (3.5 stars)
* Underwhelming: "Leviathan Wakes" by James Corey (first in The Expanse series, 3 stars)
* Formulaic Time-Suck: "An Ember In The Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir. As I finished it I really liked it, but as time passed I realised how empty my absorption had been.
* Most Controversial: "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (2 stars)

See the full list here:
wildwoila.blogspot.com/2025/03

Follow me on #BookWyrm here:
wyrms.de/user/wildwoila

Graph showing number of books read each year since 2009. Peaks in late 2010s at ~75, dropping to ~60 in recent years.
Graph showing average star rating for each year since 2009. U-shaped with 3.6 at each end and 3.4 in the middle.
Graph showing proportion of books by male authors since 2009. Consistent decline from 80% to 45%, with an uptick in 2024 to 55%.
Graph showing proportion of books by diverse (i,e. non-White) authors since 2009. First 5 years is stable at 15%, then increasing to 40% by the early 2020s.
#Bookstodon#Books
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Hiisikoloart

New comic for my disabled folks to experience Brain Fog! I no longer promote my comic in FB so please share, visit, and subscribe to my little Idiopathic Hypersomnia awareness comic for FREE!

A lot of the comic strips are relatable for those who don't have this disabling sleep disorder. <3

tapas.io/episode/3449248

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#brainfog#disability#disabilitycomic
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Bass #AlleBurgers #EcoHumanist

#atranscendedman on X wrote:

UK study, 1064 people.

#LongCOVID harms working memory, worst in diagnosed cases.

More infections and older age make it worse.

Severe #BrainFog links to the lowest memory scores.

medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

medRxiv · Long COVID affects working memory: Assessment using a single rapid online testLong COVID, or post-COVID-19 syndrome, is characterized by persistent symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection, including cognitive impairments such as brain fog that adversely affects quality of life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of long COVID on working memory using a single rapid online anonymous survey and working memory quiz. We analyzed working memory scores in relation to long COVID status (clinically diagnosed, self-reported, and non-long COVID), age, number of COVID-19 infections and long COVID duration, and subjective ratings of brain fog severity and overall life impact of symptoms. The study recruited 1064 participants aged 16 to over 85 years (83% from the United Kingdom) with 39% reporting long COVID. The results demonstrate that long COVID significantly impairs working memory, with the greatest deficits observed in clinically diagnosed cases. In addition, we found that working memory declined with age and multiple COVID-19 infections particularly in the diagnosed long COVID group. Moreover, individuals in the diagnosed long COVID group reported experiencing the most severe brain fog and the greatest impact of long COVID symptoms on their lives, and both of these factors were strongly correlated with lower memory scores. Participants who had been living with long COVID for a longer duration had lower memory scores. However, this relationship was likely influenced by the SARS-CoV-2 variant, as individuals with prolonged long COVID symptoms were more likely to have been infected with earlier variants (alpha and wild-type) which are linked to more severe disease outcomes. Our results suggest that long COVID is associated with significant working memory impairments, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions and support strategies for those with long COVID to address memory problems. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement The author(s) received no specific funding for this work. ### Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: The study was undertaken in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval was given by the Hull York Medical School Ethics Committee (Reference/Approval Number 22-23 41). Informed consent was obtained online and the data were analyzed anonymously. I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines, such as any relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material, if applicable. Yes All relevant data will be made available in Supporting Information files following manuscript acceptance.
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Valerie Roney

Question for my traumatic brain injury trunkies:

Does your capacity fluctuate with being tired, stressed, sick etc or are your limitations/capabilities more static regardless of the other ups and downs of life?

I am wondering if impact-type brain injuries have more/less flux than illness related cog/coordination issues.

#brainInjury #TBI vs #brainFog
Dropping a #longCovid too in case that crowd wants to lurk on replies.

[edit, will boost this wk for reach then read replies later]

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ahimsa

@datum I mention this since so many Long Covid (aka, post Covid) folks meet the diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS:

Many folks with ME/CFS also have some kind of cognitive impairment, aka, brain fog. It's part of the diagnostic criteria (see attached image) but it's not a requirement.

Word finding has always been a huge problem for me!

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex, chronic, debilitating disease. The disease is identified by three required symptoms and at least one of two additional symptoms. 1. The reduced ability to perform pre-illness activities that lasts for more than 6 months. This reduced ability is accompanied by profound fatigue not improved by rest. 2. Post-exertional malaise (PEM). PEM is a hallmark of ME/CFS with symptoms that worsen after physical, mental, or emotional effort. 3. Unrefreshing sleep. Orthostatic intolerance and/or cognitive impairment must also be present. Symptoms are present for half the time, with moderate to severe intensity and functional impairment. Many patients have multiple symptoms, in different systems. Long COVID brings greater attention to ME/CFS, as both illnesses share many of the same symptoms.
#COVID#LongCovid#PASC
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Valerie Roney

Ok, last lil toot before I got nap:

We've just been discussing how rest is a skill, and different than doing nothing, and often hard to allow ourselves to do and whatnot.

So for some peer mentoring / idea sharing / rest celebrating I propose a #restMode tag (I have apparently been using a bit already).

Use it to share your moments of rest, your strategies of rest, the ways you are resting, and lurk for new ideas and framing.

#spoonies#longCovid#burnout
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datum (n=1)

@trendless WOW

40% of undergrads reporting brain fog due to COVID-19

That is NOT "40% of undergrads with Long COVID"

That is NOT "40% of undergrads after severe acute COVID"

That is "40% of undergrads who EVER had a PCR or rapid test positive"

Guess this one goes near the top of the to-read pile, since "correct reaction time (ms)" is a useful measure to be able to communicate

[edit: to be clear that's from 75 students in one cohort at one school; the 40% figure should be expected to vary from school to school and cohort to cohort, etc]

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

#COVID#COVID19#SARSCoV2
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