If you’re reading this, it might be because it’s a last resort. For two months, your mind has been all over the place, unable to focus on anything other than moving to different rooms in your house to carry out required human functions. You might be starting this article again, having tried it earlier – a few minutes ago, a few hours – hoping that maybe this, an article about why you can’t focus, will give you the answers. Maybe you’re hoping this will be the thing that finally helps you snap back to normal brain functionality. You, like hundreds of millions of others, are running out of options.
All over the world, people are trying to overcome one of the few universal problems this pandemic has brought on: that it feels near-impossible to stay focused on anything. Whether it’s work or study, or even pleasurable things like reading, gaming or chatting, everything suddenly feels like a battle against your attention span to concentrate on what was once simply routine.
A video from Dr Arnsten on the prefrontal cortex and Covid-19
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