The New York Times
Key takeaways from We Have All Hit a Wall
Confronting late-stage pandemic burnout, with everything from edibles to Exodus.
Most highlighted
There’s definitely a change in how people are reporting memories and cognitive experiences,” Professor Rajah said. “They have fewer rich details about their personal memories, and more negative content to their memories.” This means, she said, that people may be having a harder time forming working memories and paying attention, with “a reduced ability to hold things in their minds, manipulate thoughts and plan for the future
Natasha Rajah, a professor of psychiatry at McGill University who specializes in memory and the brain, said the longevity of the pandemic — endless monotony laced with acute anxiety — had contributed to a sense that time was moving differently, as if this past year were a long, hazy, exhausting experience lasting forever and no time at all. The stress and tedium, she said, have dulled our ability to form meaningful new memories.
When people are under a long period of chronic, unpredictable stress, they develop behavioral anhedonia,” Dr.
Your notes & highlights
Save quotes in Reader View or use our Chrome extension.
This your link? Claim it
