There's a real Covid Cloud

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There's a real Covid Cloud



If you have difficulties with forgetfulness and concentrating  induced by the pandemic, we are all sailing in the same boat. 

Remember Dug, the Golden Retriever,  Up, the cartoon movie? He does something – and is immediately confused and disoriented on mentioning a squirrel? This is my constant state of mind in a pandemic.  The truth is that there are several issues that attract your attention, you are not able to concentrate on anything. Your children. Your boss.  Your mail.   The news of the world. There is just too much noise, so much about our jobs, our homes, community and our everyday environment, it's difficult to focus on anything at all.  

So many of us really can't.

I have found, as a psychiatrist, that my office is run over with patients coming in with their primary concern "I can't focus." This also happens to my friends and colleagues in the area of mental health.  It's obvious to me as Twitter's resident psychiatrist and mental health expert, that we all are currently suffering to some degree because of this 'Covid Cloud,' and that is very natural. There are several legitimate reasons why we all have difficulty focusing—whether it is a matter of coping with sorrow of losing a family member to coronavirus or trying to get a sense of our work-life balance, but we are still willing to blame ourselves, unable to do anything. That's why it is critical that you do very little right now — and that you are kind about it.  It could never be easy to change (Everyone sees our worth in achievements, after all) but it's the only way we can fight against this covid cloud in which we live.

The 'Covid Cloud' symptoms are

It's not as straightforward as being distracted, when we feel difficulty in focusing. It encompasses all ways of life for people.  It can show up in any form. 

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You can't stay still or focus for a long time at once 

Our scattered emotions make it more difficult for us to do function continuously for a long period of time.   Hassan, a twenty-three-year-old  student of medicine in Sudanese college, clarified that he would sit and study for more than an hour, but now is able to sustain thirty mins at a time. (For this reason, some people refer to this self-evident inability to focus as 'pandemic ADD'). These experiences of difficulty in focusing are more recurrent and last for a long duration after reading of coronavirus, he continues.

During tasks, you "zone out"  

We can't keep a record of time because of our problems. "I'm just getting somewhat out-of-zone [for a few minutes] and I notice that 20 minutes have elapsed," says  Brit Barkholtz, therapist, M.S.W. This is called the time blindness, and also the incapacity to assess, how long time has simply gone by – and may even occur in individuals without ADHD.

Task completion requires a longer time

Since the focus is hard to sustain, due to zoning and sometimes negligent errors,  tasks, which were being accomplished quickly, take a far longer time. "I usually finish them well in advance when I create presentations for workshops," says Dr. Melissa Geraghty, health psychologist. Recently, however, because of the lack of focus, she began delaying, putting off working and worked for days till the seminar. ,  "I'm struggling with the flow, the wording and sometimes I just don't understand whether what I have written is meaningful." This is pretty discouraging because in that same time frame, now we hardly achieve enough to start wondering whether something is not  right with us.

When you read or watch TV, you cannot concentrate.

Others can concentrate on their work, but when they want relaxation and rest or take care of themselves they lose focus. Blythe McDonald, mother and manager, whose spouse is a critical worker, says she felt disturbed, distracted, irritable, and even had difficulty sleeping, and everything  made her increasingly unable to do what she wanted.  "I am dissatisfied that my normal willingness to invest hours in things that I like is affected. It isn't that I cannot rustle my attention purposefully, but, it's like, rather than a hammer I now use a rock to drive nails. I'm working from home,  however,  the passion for imaginative and enjoyable things is just not there, anymore, as I want to," she states.

You have a desire to multitask

Working from home, children at home, the scenarios and the endless hours we spend now on Zoom make our focus even more difficult. There's a tremendous amount of work to do. Irene Goo, a student of medicine who is 23 years old, explains her urge to do much more activities, in one go than she had prior to COVID-19. "It is certainly harder when you lose the balance between work and life if I have to research some work. I study in my bedroom and I notice my mind racing task to task amongst my schoolwork, my telephone alerts, my thoughts on running errands, the clothes to be folded, etc.," she said. "My mind is feeling there's just too many suggestions that it's hard to concentrate on one work in particular."

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You are forgetful

Another common sign, particularly whenever they are very young to experience it, is forgetfulness.  Dawn Friedman, a Columbus therapist in Ohio, has found that patients forget where they may have put things, forget tasks and even forget the words (called Lethologica).

 

"Normally, I'm the person who knows precisely wherever I keep my keys, if I have an extra toothpaste tube and can  map future items in my schedule in my mind," says Cecilia G. "I realized that I couldn't recall all those particulars if needed since some months ago. Either I really have to stress about that or I go through the pockets of the coat and the bags and look for the keys. It is indeed uncomfortable."

 

It is understandable that the short-term selective memory is failing even though it is distressing. When our mind is drawn towards 100 directions and not  focussed on the single task at hand, we can't consolidate our thoughts. We easily  forget what we ran upstairs for, if we are continually worried  about additional uncertainties.

 

Although every person has a specific set of symptoms and then this list has not yet been completed, we should remember that we all struggle with this shift in our abilities to some degree. Look around: the new normal is to not be focused.

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