Deep Dive: Why You Keep Forgetting Everything (Part 2)
What's actually behind the forgetfulness, zoning out, and mental fog of your teens and twenties
Quick catch-up if you’re jumping in fresh: brain fog, trouble concentrating, misplaced keys, losing your train of thought, are extremely common and, for most women in their teens and twenties, driven by a short list of very fixable things: your menstrual cycle, sleep debt, stress and anxiety, attention overload from constant multitasking, and occasionally something worth a doctor’s visit (iron levels, thyroid, ADHD, PMDD, medication side effects). It is not, at this age, a sign of anything degenerative. If you want the full picture, Part 1 covers the why in more depth but everything below stands on its own.
Now, onto what actually helps.
