tornado brain

Noun

tornado brain (uncountable)

1. Mental health difficulties faced by the survivors of a tornado.
   • She told us that in the three years it took to get Greensburg fully cleaned up, “we all had ‘tornado brain.’ There were far too many things to focus on. It became hard to get up in the morning.[…]”2016, Stan Cox, Paul Cox, How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe’s Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia, page 288
   • “Families a lot of times wouldn’t do what they’re supposed to because they come in with this tornado brain,” she said. “So we sit down with them and support them through the process.”2022 January 3, London Bishop, quoting Tammy Detty, “Juvenile Court remembers clerk who pushed through medical problems to help children”, in Dayton Daily News