Right so this happened again today and I need to put it somewhere. Stood up to present to my team, twelve people I've worked with for years, and the word just... went. Not a complicated word either. I wanted to say "capacity" and I stood there opening and closing my mouth like a fish for what felt like forty minutes but was probably three seconds. My colleague finished the sentence for me. She was kind about it. I wanted to cry in the loos afterwards. I'm 51 and I genuinely don't know if this is perimenopause or whether I've just finally burnt out after two years of hybrid working and being everything to everyone. Probably both. Probably neither. Probably I need a holiday and a full blood panel and a good cry. The afternoon is the worst. 3pm and my brain just folds. I've started keeping a cereal bar in my desk drawer because someone on here mentioned the afternoon crash and honestly even just having something with a bit of protein in it seems to take the edge off slightly. Not a fix. Just... less awful. Sleep is the other thing I'm trying to get a handle on. I've been strict about getting off my phone by 10 because the nights I don't I wake up at 2am and that's it, I'm done, and the next day at work is a disaster. I've got a GP appointment in three weeks and I want to actually describe this properly rather than going in and saying "I feel a bit foggy" and getting nowhere. So I've been writing down the work stuff specifically. The meeting where I lost my thread mid-sentence. The report that took me three times longer than it should have. The email I sent to the wrong person because I just wasn't tracking properly. Real examples. Dates. I want her to understand it's not vague, it's affecting my job. Anyway. Hi. I've been reading this room for a while and apparently today was the day I finally typed all that out. x