15 Jun
Is it just me or has anyone else started writing absolutely everything down because they genuinely cannot trust their own brain anymore? I'm 51, I've always been sharp at work, I run meetings, I manage a team. And lately I'm standing there mid-sentence and the word just... goes. Not a complicated word either. Last week it was "quarterly". I stood there for a full three seconds saying "the, um, the every-three-months one" like an absolute muppet in front of my whole team. I don't know if it's peri or burnout or both and honestly the not knowing is almost worse. I've started keeping a notes app open in every meeting just so I can glance down and remember what I was about to say. It helps but it also makes me feel like I'm hiding something. I'm saving some examples to show my GP because I want to have an actual conversation about whether this could be hormone related. Not just be told it's stress and sent on my way. Sorry, needed to say it somewhere people would get it x