Firstly the inside of my head doesn’t feel normal. It feels like its full of stuffing and its bursting at the seems. It’s not painful like a headache, but its uncomfortable and distracting.

Imagine you need an important file. But the room the cabinet holding the file lives in has been completely filled with stuffing from floor to ceiling. You would be very frustrated, and maybe vocalising how stupid the person who left it like this is. Plus it would take you so much longer to get that file, making you get behind with what you had planned to do. By the time you had the file you would be tired from all the effort and still have to work out what to do with all the stuffing that you don’t know where it came from in the first place.

When I have brain fog I can find it difficult to follow what anyone is saying to me. I hear the words and I can understand what they mean on their own, but I can’t put the sentence together. So I might know what the subject might be but that’s it. For me this is more frustrating than someone trying to speak to me in a foreign language. At least then I know it’s because I’ve never learnt it. But brain fog, I should be able to follow at least, even if I don’t have the right answer.



