Up at 0930 and again tackled the proposal. In the past few days I have had a great deal of difficulty with this project and have accomplished little or nothing. Truly the only thing I have going for me is my incredibly stubborn persistence, the fact that I am unwilling to give up, unwilling to surrender to my injured state, unwilling to exclude the possibility of recovery.
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Category Archives: Depression
Headaches
11:44:24
Generating headaches on left side of head.
Have been working hard for the past two hours on conceptual cognitive tasks. This type of mental exertion brings on a headache fairly quickly while a general futzing around does not. The problem is that if I persist then the headaches get worse and will take a day, or more, to clear.
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Forest and the Trees
I have this sense of not being able to see the forest because all the trees are in the way. And immediately after writing the previous sentence I went to make coffee and ended up spilling most of the kettle over the kitchen floor. I do not know precisely how I did that but it is more or less typical. I go to perform some very simple action and I botch it and end up feeling totally incompetent. This is one problem. But I have others.
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