Stood in front of my manager today and the word just... went. Not a complicated word either. I was trying to say "provisional" and I stood there for what felt like forty seconds saying "you know, the sort of, not final, the... the..." and she finished my sentence for me. I wanted to disappear into the floor. I'm 43 and I used to be the person who could hold six things in my head at once and talk through all of them without notes. Now I prep for every meeting like I'm revising for an exam and I still come out looking vague. Sleep is the thing I'm working on at the moment because someone mentioned it here and it stuck with me. I'm trying to actually stop doing stuff by ten, no screens, same time every night. Some nights it helps. Some nights my brain just decides 2am is thinking time regardless. The other thing I've noticed is the 3pm slump is genuinely brutal. I've started keeping nuts and a bit of cheese at my desk instead of going for the biscuits in the kitchen, and honestly the afternoon is slightly less awful? Might be coincidence but I'll take it. When I finally get a GP appointment I want to be able to explain this properly, not just say "I feel foggy". So I've been writing down the specific moments, like today, so I can show her it's affecting my actual job. Does anyone else do that? Keep a kind of work impact log? I feel a bit daft but I don't know how else to make it feel real to someone who sees me for ten minutes x