The Nuance

Why Your Brain Needs Boundaries

And how modern life is ripping them down

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Photo: Avi Richards/Unsplash

It happens to everyone now and then. You walk into a room and find you’ve forgotten why you’re there. Was there something you needed? Or something you wanted to do? Whatever it was, it’s gone.

Psychologists call this “the doorway effect.”

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.