You don’t have to be a neurologist to see patterns.
Everyone I know who avoids mitigation looks noticeably different from their pre-covid selves. In temperament, in consistency, in emotional regulation, in decision making.
The changes are everywhere. People just normalised them
Everyone I know who avoids mitigation looks noticeably different from their pre-covid selves. In temperament, in consistency, in emotional regulation, in decision making.
The changes are everywhere. People just normalised them
https://twitter.com/dcrinyyc/status/1997736616518136128
A key problem we have is that neurological changes often impair the very systems needed to notice those changes.
It’s an anosognosia-like loop.
The more dysregulated someone becomes, the more convinced they are that nothing is wrong.
It’s an anosognosia-like loop.
The more dysregulated someone becomes, the more convinced they are that nothing is wrong.
At population level, impairment camouflages itself.
If everyone’s executive function declines a little, the new baseline feels ‘normal’.
People compare themselves to the surrounding decline, not their pre-2020 selves.
If everyone’s executive function declines a little, the new baseline feels ‘normal’.
People compare themselves to the surrounding decline, not their pre-2020 selves.
“I feel fine” tells you nothing.
Biology doesn’t care about subjective impressions, especially when the frontal systems that detect internal change are the ones affected.
Symptoms aren’t the same as damage, and lack of symptoms isn’t the same as health.
Biology doesn’t care about subjective impressions, especially when the frontal systems that detect internal change are the ones affected.
Symptoms aren’t the same as damage, and lack of symptoms isn’t the same as health.
And, by the way, the earliest warning signs aren’t academic or intellectual… they’re behavioural.
Irritability, impulsivity, inconsistency, reduced foresight, emotional volatility.
Executive function cracks long before anything shows up on a formal test.
Take time to observe.
Irritability, impulsivity, inconsistency, reduced foresight, emotional volatility.
Executive function cracks long before anything shows up on a formal test.
Take time to observe.
Most people are contracting 1-2 infections p/year, each one accelerating biological ageing through neurotropic injury, vascular damage & cumulative immune dysfunction.
Life expectancy isn’t increasing, it’s contracting.
And show me someone who wants to work until they’re 120 😂
Life expectancy isn’t increasing, it’s contracting.
And show me someone who wants to work until they’re 120 😂
https://twitter.com/ihyreeece/status/1997468381054918929
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