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Originally Posted by Butterscotch.
Intrusive thoughts can occur at any given time for no reason. That's a part of depression, anxiety, PTSD. Brain fog is a huge part of depression and dissociation, because you're basically moving through the day, you're body making the motions needed, you're doing the things thatn eed to get done, but it's all automatic. You're not really there.
But a lot of people use "brain fog" when they really mean they're exhausted or they're distracted. Brain fog is part of chronic illness, one that accompanies long-term depression and can be co-morbid with anxiety and PTSD. If anyone ever feels "brain fog" due to exhaustion, that can be easily solved by getting sleep, eating right, and exercising.
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When I read "brain fog" I thought of the symptom women go through in menopause, so I wondered if OPs brain fog was an addition to her symptoms rather than being another way of saying theyre exhausted, but I get how people could call exhaustion brain fog.