5d ago
53 and genuinely asking because I cannot work it out: is this brain fog or am I just completely burned out? I've been in my job fifteen years. I know this stuff. And yet last week I sat in a team meeting and could not for the life of me finish a sentence coherently. Not one. My manager was looking at me and I could see her face doing that thing and I wanted to disappear through the floor. The thing is I can't separate it. I've been knackered for years, two teenagers, ageing parents, a job that expanded during covid and never went back down. So is it hormones or is it just... life finally catching up? How do you even tell? I've started bringing proper lunches to work, more protein, less sad desk sandwich, because someone on here mentioned it ages ago and I thought fine, I'll try it. Genuinely not sure if it's helping the fog or just making me feel like I'm doing something. Afternoons are slightly less catastrophic maybe?? Hard to say. I do want to talk to my GP about it but I'm worried she'll just say stress. Which, yes. But also I'm 53 and my cycles are all over the place and surely that's relevant? Does anyone have a way of describing this to a doctor that doesn't sound like you're just tired and a bit sad. Because I am tired and a bit sad but I think there's more going on x