Covid Brain Fog? 5 Ways to Clear It

Studies are finding that isolation, stress, and uncertainty can cause forgetfulness and disorganization. Here’s what to do about it.

People are social by nature, but the last two years having to deal with the pandemic, working from home, home-schooling and other isolating events have been found to increase fortgetfulness, and disorganization. Dean Drobot/Shutterstock

The other day, my friend Kristina told me that one evening she unintentionally locked her husband in a downstairs part of their house. She had known he was down there, but while distractedly locking the door for the night, forgot completely. She didn’t realize what she’d done until she saw a text from her husband the next morning asking her to please let him out.

“I couldn’t believe I did that to him,” she says. “I was stunned and alarmed that I had no awareness, in the moment or afterward, of what I had done.”