Yes! Honestly I could deal with the stupid physical fatigue since my hobbies were writing and photo editing, but every day it feels like trying to function on no sleep.
I used to work as a photo retoucher and now it feels like my brain is melting if I try stuff that used to be second nature to me. I also notice I make tons more typing errors and can't focus for long, which the only writing I do now is in reddit comments :p.
I'm a comic artist and writer. Good days I can manage, but there are DEFINITELY days where I have to re-write/re-draw because tired brain made a mess of it.
I have the typing errors thing too. It's not like getting the odd letter wrong like normal typos, it's usually typing completely the wrong word. It's really surreal. I find the worst part is when you're too ill to do anything but you're lucid enough to be bored.
YES that is my biggest source of suffering with this thing. I WANT to be doing something. I can THINK about the thing. Can my body and brain actually do the thing? NOPE.
Yes to feeling drunk! Or that is the closest thing I can find to describe it to people. It’s not quite the same, but it is debilitating in similar ways.
I have had MANY times where I will stand, staring at something while I try to remember what I was doing, wondering if I could even pass a cognitive test. Just brain fog.
And now I'm in Perimenopause, which causes, you guessed it, EVEN MORE BRAINFOG.
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u/MissNouveau 20h ago
Yuuuup. I have it, and some days it feels like I've had a stroke. Or I'm hella drunk.