51 and I used to be the person in meetings who could pull the right word out of thin air, every time. Last Tuesday I stopped mid-sentence in front of my whole team and genuinely could not remember the word "threshold". Stood there. Smiled. Said "you know, the... the point where it tips over" and moved on like I meant to do that. I didn't mean to do that. I've started writing everything down before I speak now. Like actual bullet points before a ten-minute catch-up with my line manager. It helps but it also makes me feel like I'm revising for an exam just to do my job. The afternoons are the worst. By 3pm my brain is basically static. I've been having a handful of nuts and some cheese around then instead of the biscuits I used to grab, and honestly the crash feels slightly less brutal? Not fixed, just... less of a cliff edge. Sleep is the thing I'm trying to properly sort. I keep reading that it matters and I do believe it, but I'm also a mum of two teenagers so "good sleep" is a bit of a theoretical concept in this house. I want to go back to my GP with actual examples. Real ones. "This happened on this date, this is how it affected my work." Because last time I said I was struggling and she basically said stress and sent me off. I need her to understand this isn't just tired. This is something else. x