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Brain fog, foggy head is often described as:
Your head, mind, and brain feel foggy or like in a fog.
It feels like you have a foggy head, foggy mind.
You have difficulty thinking, concentrating, and/or forming thoughts.
Your thinking feels like it is muddled and impaired.
Some people describe this symptom as being “foggy-headed” or having a “foggy head.”
It seems as if your thoughts are illusive, and things that you once knew seem hard to comprehend or recall.
It feels like your short-term memory isn’t as good as it used to be.
It feels like normal intellectual tasks seem much more difficult.
You find it hard to focus and concentrate.
You are more forgetful (forget things that you normally wouldn’t).
You have difficulty focusing on and carrying on conversations.
Your thoughts seem like in a cloud.
Your thinking isn’t as clear as it normally is.
Your head feels foggy, clouded, muddled, and 'off.'
Brain fog, foggy head can come and go rarely, occur frequently, or persist indefinitely. For example, you may feel foggy headed once and a while and not that often, feel it off and on, or feel it all the time.
Brain fog, foggy head may precede, accompany, or follow an escalation of other anxiety sensations and symptoms, or occur by itself.
Brain fog, foggy head can precede, accompany, or follow an episode of nervousness, anxiety, fear, and elevated stress, or occur ‘out of the blue’ and for no apparent reason.
Brain fog, foggy head can range in intensity from slight, to moderate, to severe. It can also come in waves, where it’s strong one moment and eases off the next.
Brain fog, foggy head can change from day to day, and/or from moment to moment.
All of the above combinations and variations are common.
What causes brain fog, foggy head?
Because there are many medical conditions that can cause brain fog, it’s best to discuss this symptom with your doctor. If your doctor attributes your brain fog, foggy head to anxiety, you can feel assured that there isn’t a medical cause.
There are a number of reasons why brain fog and foggy head symptoms occur. Here are five:
1. An active stress response suppresses the rationalization areas of the brain (the cortex) and increases the areas of the brain reactive to danger (the amygdala and others). This change in brain functioning makes us more aware of danger and increases our reaction to it. While this change is beneficial when in real danger, it can become a problem when the stress response is activated too frequently and/or dramatically, such as when being overly anxious. This change in brain functioning can come across as ‘brain fog or foggy head.’
2. High levels of stress hormones (caused from worry, stress, fear, anger, frustration, and anxiety), because they are stimulants, cause an increase in the electrical activity in the brain. Increased electrical activity in the brain causes the brain to generate an increase in thought generation and at a faster rate. This change can cause our attention to be more easily sidetracked, which can cause split attention and focus making it seem like our thoughts are foggy.
3. Persistent anxiousness and its stress response consequences can cause persistent brain function changes. As we mentioned in point one, stress hormones suppress the rationalization areas of the brain (the cortex) and increase the activity in the fear center of the brain (the amygdala). This combination reduces the ability to logically rationalize and process information while at the same time increases the awareness of danger, fear, apprehension, gloom and doom - many describe anxiety as a sense of sudden or ongoing foreboding and doom. The more anxious we are, the more persistent these changes become. Persistent anxiousness can cause persistent brain fog and foggy head.
Your head, mind, and brain feel foggy or like in a fog.
It feels like you have a foggy head, foggy mind.
You have difficulty thinking, concentrating, and/or forming thoughts.
Your thinking feels like it is muddled and impaired.
Some people describe this symptom as being “foggy-headed” or having a “foggy head.”
It seems as if your thoughts are illusive, and things that you once knew seem hard to comprehend or recall.
It feels like your short-term memory isn’t as good as it used to be.
It feels like normal intellectual tasks seem much more difficult.
You find it hard to focus and concentrate.
You are more forgetful (forget things that you normally wouldn’t).
You have difficulty focusing on and carrying on conversations.
Your thoughts seem like in a cloud.
Your thinking isn’t as clear as it normally is.
Your head feels foggy, clouded, muddled, and 'off.'
Brain fog, foggy head can come and go rarely, occur frequently, or persist indefinitely. For example, you may feel foggy headed once and a while and not that often, feel it off and on, or feel it all the time.
Brain fog, foggy head may precede, accompany, or follow an escalation of other anxiety sensations and symptoms, or occur by itself.
Brain fog, foggy head can precede, accompany, or follow an episode of nervousness, anxiety, fear, and elevated stress, or occur ‘out of the blue’ and for no apparent reason.
Brain fog, foggy head can range in intensity from slight, to moderate, to severe. It can also come in waves, where it’s strong one moment and eases off the next.
Brain fog, foggy head can change from day to day, and/or from moment to moment.
All of the above combinations and variations are common.
What causes brain fog, foggy head?
Because there are many medical conditions that can cause brain fog, it’s best to discuss this symptom with your doctor. If your doctor attributes your brain fog, foggy head to anxiety, you can feel assured that there isn’t a medical cause.
There are a number of reasons why brain fog and foggy head symptoms occur. Here are five:
1. An active stress response suppresses the rationalization areas of the brain (the cortex) and increases the areas of the brain reactive to danger (the amygdala and others). This change in brain functioning makes us more aware of danger and increases our reaction to it. While this change is beneficial when in real danger, it can become a problem when the stress response is activated too frequently and/or dramatically, such as when being overly anxious. This change in brain functioning can come across as ‘brain fog or foggy head.’
2. High levels of stress hormones (caused from worry, stress, fear, anger, frustration, and anxiety), because they are stimulants, cause an increase in the electrical activity in the brain. Increased electrical activity in the brain causes the brain to generate an increase in thought generation and at a faster rate. This change can cause our attention to be more easily sidetracked, which can cause split attention and focus making it seem like our thoughts are foggy.
3. Persistent anxiousness and its stress response consequences can cause persistent brain function changes. As we mentioned in point one, stress hormones suppress the rationalization areas of the brain (the cortex) and increase the activity in the fear center of the brain (the amygdala). This combination reduces the ability to logically rationalize and process information while at the same time increases the awareness of danger, fear, apprehension, gloom and doom - many describe anxiety as a sense of sudden or ongoing foreboding and doom. The more anxious we are, the more persistent these changes become. Persistent anxiousness can cause persistent brain fog and foggy head.