You know, I haven't been feeling right for weeks now. Months, if I'm honest.
Actually scratch that. For the past maybe 12 years I haven't been completely well - sure there have been periods which can last months where I'm pretty much functional, but there have also been times where I've been in a fair bit of physical pain, exhausted, miserable, clinically depressed, unable to do anything, and (for a rather, er, interesting month or so) actually wanting to die (which I don't refer to as "suicidal", but only because I didn't have the energy to even consider how I'd go about it).
But mostly I'm not at either extreme.
I've definitely posted about this sort of thing before. I'm pretty much "out of it". I don't much care, everything's too much effort. I'm tired. I mean, really tired. I can't think about more than maybe two easy things at once - so knowing that I have to mail something today and that I haven't watered the greenhouse yet takes all my available brainpower and I can't do anything else. Anything that involves multiple steps or processes just isn't possible right now.
As an example, Michael's just come in as I was writing this. He asked how I was. It took me a good 15 seconds to work out an appropriate way to respond (and it was only "Mmmmfffh" in the end).
Feels like I'm running on fumes, when I never had a very big petrol tank to begin with. Guess my fuel economy's gone to shit. And now I have to stop with the car metaphor because I just don't have the mental capacity to follow through with it.
I really hate being stupid, because I'm not. I have an IQ of 138* and I've pretty much aced every exam I've bothered to work for (and some I haven't). I'm sick of being this pathetic shadow of myself that just sits around all day not being able to do anything fun or useful, who can't remember to shower or clean her teeth, who doesn't answer the phone in case she has to make conversation with someone or they ask her to do something.
You know what? I'm fucking sick of it.
And even worse, I have no idea what to do about it.**
There has to be some way out of this. Because if there isn't, I'm really fucked. I can't live like this.
* I don't believe that IQ is an really accurate measure of actual intelligence, but a near-genius IQ has to indicate that my brain's pretty good, if only at doing IQ test type puzzles.
** I'm even considering the doctor again, if you can believe it. Even though they are pretty much no help at all, and a doc visit invariably leaves me feeling frustrated and miserable because I need them to help me and they, well, can't. Maybe it's depression talking, but I can't see how exercising and losing weight are sensible things to suggest to me right now. Why not ask me to fly to the Moon? With a 10-ton weight strapped to my ankles? Gimme some drugs and make me better. That's your job.
Ickworth
1 day ago
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I'm so sorry you're feeling this way, Anna. Perhaps finding a different doctor. There are good ones and bad ones. Sometimes the good ones tell you things you don't want to hear (excercise!), but in the end wind up being the ones that got it right.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds to me like a bad depression though. Diet and exercise can help, but you'll need the drugs to get you out of the dumps to start with so that you CAN.
I suspect one of my brothers is severely depressed. I'm having lunch with him today to talk to him about his plans - he's moving to a new city next weekend and hasn't even started packing yet! He's not at all excited or worried or...anything. Something is definitely off there.
Hang in, Anna - and see if you can find one of those good doctors that wants to do ALL the steps to getting you better, not just jumping to the middle.
Yeah, I know they're right, ultimately. It's just sometimes it seems impossible to do what they're asking me, and they just expect me to do it with no problems.
ReplyDeleteHope your brother's okay...