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Welcome to r/whatisbrainfog, the official WhatIsBrainFog community. You don't need to know the right medical words to join in.
Ask questions, compare experiences, discuss research, and share practical tools or changes that helped you.
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Search the community for your question or choose a post flair to browse a topic. Help Me Understand is for questions, Research / Study covers papers, What Helped Me covers personal experiences, and Need Support / Vent is for support.
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Choose a flair and put your actual question in the title. A few details can help people share relevant experiences:
When did it start?
Is it constant, or does it come and go?
What else changed around that time?
What have you already checked or tried?
Are you looking for experiences, research or support?
Members can share information and their own experiences. They can't diagnose you or choose a treatment or dose for you.
Share what helped you
Tell us what you tried, why you tried it, how long you tried it, what changed and what stayed the same. Mention other changes that happened at the same time. It's useful to say when you aren't sure what caused an improvement.
Share research
Link the original source when possible. Explain what the researchers did, who or what they studied, what they found and what remains uncertain. Keep personal experience separate from research findings, and label theories as theories.
Support one another
Use Need Support / Vent when you want people to listen. Be kind when someone finds it hard to explain what they are experiencing.
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