Lost the word 'infrastructure' in a meeting today. I KNOW this word. I've used it approximately four thousand times in my career. Just stood there, mouth open, while my colleague very kindly said it for me. The look on my face must have been a picture. I'm 51 and I genuinely cannot tell if this is perimenopause or if I've just finally burned out after a very long year. Both? Probably both. What I do know is the afternoons are the worst. By 3pm my brain is basically static. I've started keeping a little bag of mixed nuts and some oat crackers in my desk drawer because I noticed the crash was hitting harder when I'd skipped a proper lunch, and something about having an actual snack (not just coffee, which I was basically mainlining) seems to take the sharp edge off it. Not a cure. Just slightly less useless between 3 and 5. Sleep is the other thing I'm trying to be more deliberate about. Phone off by 10, which I am failing at approximately 60% of the time, but the nights I manage it I do feel marginally more human the next day. I've got a GP appointment coming up and I want to actually describe this properly, not just say 'I feel a bit foggy'. So I've been writing things down. Specific moments. Like today. 'Could not retrieve the word infrastructure in a team meeting, had to pause for approximately 8 seconds.' That feels more real than 'my memory isn't great'. Has anyone else framed it to their GP like this? I want to be taken seriously and not just told I'm tired. x