Published on 12, July, 2020
Forgot to add a meeting to my diary and missed it this morning. So cross with myself!
All this panic, stress and anxiety over the GE really reduced my cognitive function.
Does anyone else struggle with similar problems? Normally I’m super organised but when I feel threatened or stressed in life, I find it much harder to use my strategies to help me cope and my executive function goes out the window.
I’m feeling extremely guilty too as I mask a lot and most people don’t know about the difficulties I experience, so it will be really unexpected which makes it worse.
Thanks!
There's definitely that double impact of things when others don't know you're struggling so you have the actual problem and also that to deal with too.
I go through phases of being very much focussed on things that everything else gets forgotten, don't beat yourself up about it, just try and laugh it off if you can.
I think in times of stress out defence mechanism kicks in and that reduces our focus down to just the "threat" , meaning we've got little to no bandwidth to deal with other stuff.
You've hit the nail on the head there, thank you so much for commenting.