43 and I lost the word 'escalate' in a meeting yesterday. Just... gone. I was mid-sentence, presenting to my manager, and I stood there opening and closing my mouth like a fish. Said 'make bigger' in the end and wanted to crawl under the table. This has been happening for months and I keep telling myself it's stress or too much on my plate but honestly I think something else is going on. I used to be sharp. Like, annoyingly sharp. Now I'm rereading my own emails three times because I can't trust what I've written. The afternoons are the worst. By 3ish my brain just fogs over completely. I've started keeping a packet of those peanut butter oat things in my desk drawer and eating one around 2:30 and it does seem to take the edge off slightly? Not a cure obviously but it stops me feeling quite so underwater. Sleep is the other thing I'm trying to sort. I've started being really strict about screens after 9pm which felt dramatic but the nights I manage it I do feel fractionally more human the next day. I've got a GP appointment coming up and I want to actually explain the work stuff properly this time, not just say 'I'm a bit tired'. I'm writing down specific examples, like the meeting yesterday, because I know if I don't I'll just sit there and say I'm fine. Anyone else doing this? Feels slightly mad to be preparing evidence about my own brain x