51 and genuinely cannot tell where tired ends and broken begins. I've been trying to work out for months whether what's happening to my brain is perimenopause or whether I've just run myself into the ground. I'm a deputy head. I have two teenagers. I commute 90 minutes each way. So burnout is entirely on the table, right? Except the specific thing that's happening feels different from ordinary tired. It's not that I can't think. It's that I'll be mid-sentence in a meeting and the word just... leaves. Not a complex word either. Last week I said "the thing that measures it" instead of "the metric". My line manager was there. I wanted to disappear. I've started keeping a note on my phone of the moments when it happens. Not obsessively, just a quick line. "Tuesday 2pm, lost the word for 'threshold', had to talk around it for ten seconds." I don't know what I'm doing with these notes yet but they feel like evidence? Like if I ever actually get a GP appointment and manage to say more than "I'm a bit tired" I'll have something concrete to show. Also trying something with lunch this week. I read somewhere (probably this forum honestly) that protein helps with the afternoon crash and I've been eating a sad little sandwich for years so I've switched to eggs or chicken or whatever I can actually be bothered to make the night before. Day four. Jury's out but I haven't fallen asleep on the 17.42 yet so that's something I suppose 😂 Anyone else keeping a kind of cognitive diary? Or is that just me being extremely type-A about falling apart x