Robert Whitfield MD explains what brain fog feels like: forgetting simple things, misplacing items, struggling to recall names. It often comes with anxiety or depression, and people worry it means dementia.
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We. You may have brain fog. And when I first was confronted with patients telling me they had brain fog, I didn't quite understand it. So I'd ask a lot of questions like, you know, what does that mean? What happens? And it. It could be as simple as they just kind of forget things. Simple things even. They may misplace their keys. They may not remember their children's names. And these were, you know, very concerning. People think, oh, my gosh, you know, I'm. I'm developing, you know, early onset Alzheimer's or something like that. They can have anxiety and. Or depression or both of these things, you know, coexisting. And that's discon. Concerning. Obviously, if you've never been an anxious person.