COVID is known to cause blood clots in capillaries causing localized hypoxia. It's reasonable to say that COVID may choke parts of your brain by depriving them of blood by blocking up capillaries without actually causing a full-blown stroke; however, COVID causes strokes/heart attacks sometimes too. SARS-2-CoV is also known to infect the brain so it could also just be destruction of brain cells by the virus hijacking them.
It seems as though pretty much everyone who gets COVID has lower cognitive skills after but it does scale with severity of disease so milder cases are very slightly impaired and people who spent time in the ICU likely lose more major cognitive skills that they had.
Keep in mind that brain damage is not something you really notice unless you lose a skill or ability. If you just get a little dumber your brain has no way to sense that so it doesn't really impact anyone's lives.
Thats where I am confused on this. A mild generalized cognitive decline describes the effects of depression and getting covid in this helltime would be enough to make anyone depressed. I would imagine that if you measured your average person been stuck in quarantine these two years they would show some decline from back when they were able to freely socialize and had hope for the future. Diffuse ischemia would show up as more than just mild decline. You'd have balance and motor issues far more noticeable than brain fog.
The severe cases make sense. I just wonder if this isn't a case of trying to biomedically define away an issue with society you know. I know I shouldn't speculate without reading the full paper but paywall
yeah tbh when I hear people complaining about like mild short term memory issues and "brain fog" I think they probably just have depression but are in dental about it..same with that Havana syndrome
I am not trying to be dismissive. I really think over million dead with no end to the terror and the colapse of the world as we knew it has to be causing profound psychic damage to people and I have seen no one talking about taking that seriously.
oh yeah I think its natural for people to feel bad and traumatized now, and yeah its not ever really talked about as a serious issue. people keep reaching for a pre-covid "new normal" but i think they will be disappointed
Personally I never really had the brain fog as a symptom, except for a week in January for some reason
But during that week I basically couldn't do anything whatsoever
I also think that people who lose their sense of smell may be more prone to brain symptoms. I never lost my smell, and never had chronic brain fog
Yeah I think this is something that we won’t fully understand for another several years. I’ve had some brain fog since having COVID but I honestly had noticed being a little less snappy in general over the last couple years and think part of it is probably just aging.
COVID is known to cause blood clots in capillaries causing localized hypoxia. It's reasonable to say that COVID may choke parts of your brain by depriving them of blood by blocking up capillaries without actually causing a full-blown stroke; however, COVID causes strokes/heart attacks sometimes too. SARS-2-CoV is also known to infect the brain so it could also just be destruction of brain cells by the virus hijacking them.
It seems as though pretty much everyone who gets COVID has lower cognitive skills after but it does scale with severity of disease so milder cases are very slightly impaired and people who spent time in the ICU likely lose more major cognitive skills that they had.
Keep in mind that brain damage is not something you really notice unless you lose a skill or ability. If you just get a little dumber your brain has no way to sense that so it doesn't really impact anyone's lives.
Thats where I am confused on this. A mild generalized cognitive decline describes the effects of depression and getting covid in this helltime would be enough to make anyone depressed. I would imagine that if you measured your average person been stuck in quarantine these two years they would show some decline from back when they were able to freely socialize and had hope for the future. Diffuse ischemia would show up as more than just mild decline. You'd have balance and motor issues far more noticeable than brain fog.
The severe cases make sense. I just wonder if this isn't a case of trying to biomedically define away an issue with society you know. I know I shouldn't speculate without reading the full paper but paywall
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-hidden-long-term-cognitive-effects-of-covid-2020100821133
This is a decent but old write-up on the subject.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7577658/
This one discusses what is causing the brain problems.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext
This one shows the cognitive decline associated with COVID. We'll see how persistent this decline is. It may go away with time.
yeah tbh when I hear people complaining about like mild short term memory issues and "brain fog" I think they probably just have depression but are in dental about it..same with that Havana syndrome
I am not trying to be dismissive. I really think over million dead with no end to the terror and the colapse of the world as we knew it has to be causing profound psychic damage to people and I have seen no one talking about taking that seriously.
oh yeah I think its natural for people to feel bad and traumatized now, and yeah its not ever really talked about as a serious issue. people keep reaching for a pre-covid "new normal" but i think they will be disappointed
it's not "mild" lmao
Personally I never really had the brain fog as a symptom, except for a week in January for some reason
But during that week I basically couldn't do anything whatsoever
I also think that people who lose their sense of smell may be more prone to brain symptoms. I never lost my smell, and never had chronic brain fog
That loss of smell is highly correlated with depression so my pseudoscientific speculation is still tracks with that
Yeah I think this is something that we won’t fully understand for another several years. I’ve had some brain fog since having COVID but I honestly had noticed being a little less snappy in general over the last couple years and think part of it is probably just aging.
I guess we’ll see.
is that why aspirin apparently helps?
I'm fucking worthless lmao eat shit, talentcucks