Incapacitated

My brain is taking a break, apparently. It affects everything. Being unable to come up with a word is foreign to me. I was so sharp and I thought it would be so as I went through my fifties and sixties. Never imagined I’d experience deterioration in my mid 50’s.

Fog moves in, curling around the language section of synapses. My ability to process

There you go. I have no idea what I intended to express. Coming up with the idea takes tortuous stewing and stirring. Getting that same idea “on paper” is a slow, painful process, revisiting the original thought repeatedly to get the next word. You should’ve seen how long it took me to grind out the title for this article.

Why am I writing this? Wanted to share the difficulty of brain fog with people who have heard of it but don’t know what it’s like. Stopping now. My eyes are closing. Napping is going to happen; it’s not optional today. Keep on keeping on, friends.


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5 responses to “Incapacitated”

  1. It’s annoying when the brain doesn’t want to function.

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  2. I knew very well as early as 25. It’s not you, it’s all the other crap fogging up your head.

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    1. You’re so fortunate to have figured it out that early. I thought I’d “handled” my mental health, πŸ˜†and then fibromyalgia added a whole new level of complex difficulty. πŸ™

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      1. Ugh I’ve got that too (or at least that’s what the doctors call pain that they can’t be bothered to investigate too thoroughly).

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  3. Did they check your trigger points? When they do mine, those locations hurt terribly.

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