I have ‘pandemic brain’. Will I ever be able to concentrate again?

When lockdown hit, I became distracted, unfocused - and overwhelmed. But there are ways to recover

I can pinpoint the exact moment that I realized my brain was still broken from the pandemic.

A few weeks ago, while riding the train, I decided to send off a few overdue email replies. Fast forward 45 minutes, and there I was: sitting cross-legged on my destination platform, email forgotten, frantically toggling between tabs. It was, by now, a grimly familiar experience of my pandemic-era cognitive performance.