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Brain fog is a common symptom in many illnesses where chronic pain is a major component. [26] Brain fog affects 15% to 40% of those with chronic pain as their major illness. [27] In such illnesses, pain processing may use up resources, decreasing the brain's ability to think effectively. [26]
One study found that 22% of people who had COVID-19 showed cognitive impairment, such as brain fog, three months after their illness. Brain fog can also be caused by chronic disease, stress ...
“If you’re referred to another doctor after your screening, they’ll do a full medical history plus more in-depth cognitive testing, blood work, and brain scans,” McKay says.
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Feelings of depersonalization and derealization are common from significant stress or panic attacks. [6] Individuals may remain in a depersonalized state for the duration of a typical panic attack. However, in some cases, the dissociated state may last for hours, days, weeks, or even months at a time. [9]
Panic disorder is a mental and behavioral disorder, [5] specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by reoccurring unexpected panic attacks. [1] Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear that may include palpitations, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, numbness, or a feeling that something terrible is going to happen.
Derealization can accompany the neurological conditions of epilepsy (particularly temporal lobe epilepsy), migraine, and mild TBI (head injury). [12] There is a similarity between visual hypo-emotionality, a reduced emotional response to viewed objects, and derealization.
Ben Tarver, 29, began having seizures and panic attacks in September before exhibiting symptoms of paranoia. By the middle of October, he was diagnosed with Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, a rare ...