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My Monday group had a presentation by someone (hospice worker) on the effects of stress on the brain. It's basically the parts of our brain that deal with perceived sabertooth tigers, only it might be a new diagnosis or physical changes or dealing with caregivers (or divorce or job loss or grief or pandemics or whatever).

Decreased executive function, trouble processing language, reduced working memory (like "what was I doing"), irritability replaying memories of prior painful life experiences, increased impulsivity.

Uh. Yeah that's pretty much my life.

(Physical effects of cortisol also include fatigue hahaha I'm doomed.)

This is stuff I sort of already knew, but it's ... a very appropriately-timed refresh of why I'm not coping, why I've been feeling on the edge of a breakdown for ... months, but also the past few weeks in particular.
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