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What It Is, Causes, and How to Treat It

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Brain Fog: What It Is, Causes, and How to Treat It

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Sleep became a distant memory after I had twins—three non-consecutive hours on a good night. Balancing two newborns, a preschooler, and a full-time job had me running on fumes, way too much caffeine, and sheer willpower. But it was the constant brain fog that left me feeling disconnected and scattered.

“Brain fog is a term used to describe a wide range of cognitive difficulties, including problems with focus, memory, processing (thinking) speed, and mental clarity,” Dr. Simon Faynboym, MD, a psychiatrist and medical director at Neuro Wellness Spa, says. “Unlike normal mental fatigue, which is temporary overuse of your cognition, brain fog feels more persistent and can occur even without significant mental exertion.”

How I got to love the terminal 💻️

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I am old enough to remember the end of MS-DOS and Apple II Pro-DOS command lines being the primary way you worked with computer until I inherited my aunt’s old Macintosh Plus. I found terminal programs to be confounding, so many commands and keystrokes to remember. Why learn all those things, when you can have menus and icons to click on that were self-evident how they worked?

To this day, I generally use GUI software unless there is a reason that I can’t on my desktop – like the rare time an X11 server has crashed or I am preforming maintenance. But generally, I use GUI software. Yet, for some jobs – especially those that can be automated – nothing beats and old fashioned shell script. Terminals are good when you need to script things or run processes that are simple to run with minimal flags. They are good for piping the output of one command to another command.