Poll: Cognitive challenges

[[Ma...]]

If you’re experiencing them, could you please say how and how it’s affecting you in your daily life?

[[Le...]]

focus and concentration. improving but after years still difficult and challenging to read or watch anythinh. . memory. before i didnt have any kind of perfect memory but i could tell you say anything within a week i talked to someone about generally by topic and what part of the day i did it in. now i am unsure often after even an hour.  also short term too  read a phone number and cant remember long enough to dial  

i cant hold things well in my minds eye. not sure what its called but hard to imagine objects and manipulate things just in my head. before i could easily imagine systems of objects. maybe not describing this well. 

[[Ja...]]

Wow,.today and driving was really hard after some commitments I had to do,.I was so dreamy/stressed coming back

Also the last 2 odd days my wording while trying to talk has been quite bad,.not getting words out properly,.and it sets the stress of.

[[jo...]]

Mine is all over the place like a lot of my symptoms. Periods where I'm quite lucid, times when I struggle to sign my own name. I wish this was a more stable process but it's difficult to predict.

[[En...]]

I have a hard time thinking about how hard it is to solve problems in my life right now. I am a thinker and a problem solver and this is very hard on me. Anxiety takes over and is the prime thinker. All I can think about is how different a person I am right now. I wonder if that person will ever come back. One thing I can say is this situation will change who I am even when I am healed. I will look at life a lot differently now.

[[Ne...]]

My mind feels so dulled down, blank and spacey, I can barely retain anything or recall info.  I feel like everything I ever learned in my life is lost.  It’s hard for me to keep conversations going or to respond to / process things quickly like I used to.  It’s incredibly distressing…makes me feel like I have brain damage.

[[da...]]

On 24/05/2024 at 19:26, [[J...] said:

Wow,.today and driving was really hard after some commitments I had to do,.I was so dreamy/stressed coming back

Also the last 2 odd days my wording while trying to talk has been quite bad,.not getting words out properly,.and it sets the stress of.

I can imagine. Finding the right words during a conversation can be hard. 
 

i work two weeks straight before i get my two days off and the cycle repeats. I have meetings daily and i need to communicate with co workers throughout my 12 hour shift, daily.  I drive myself to  & from work ; 80km in total. My work environment is something out of a SAW movie. 
 

lets keep fighting, honestly we dont have any choice. 

[[En...]]

3 hours ago, [[d...] said:

I can imagine. Finding the right words during a conversation can be hard. 
 

i work two weeks straight before i get my two days off and the cycle repeats. I have meetings daily and i need to communicate with co workers throughout my 12 hour shift, daily.  I drive myself to  & from work ; 80km in total. My work environment is something out of a SAW movie. 
 

lets keep fighting, honestly we dont have any choice. 

I don't know how you can work in this state. I have to be careful what stresses I put on myself or i will have panic attacks. I cant even be in a car right now. I admire your strength. 

[[da...]]

2 hours ago, [[E...] said:

I don't know how you can work in this state. I have to be careful what stresses I put on myself or i will have panic attacks. I cant even be in a car right now. I admire your strength. 

Don’t have a choice. Either i work or im on the streets. My mom is dependent on my earnings and my daughters.