I related to this article a little too much. I, too, began to collapse under stress in my mid-40s.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    I totally relate to being caught on the backfoot by sudden loss of competence. For me the loss of competence feels like a loss of value. And oof the overwhelm at simple to-do lists. I absolutely lost my shit yesterday, about how life is just doing tasks until you die.

    • @Zaleen
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      21 year ago

      I have this sad conversation with myself multiple times a week :( hang in there

    • @R4sjd1
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      21 year ago

      Cries in ADHD. Seriously, I thought I was having a midlife crisis. Everything is just struggling to maintain and trying to tick off as much as possible from the list and somehow the list never changes anymore.