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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Brain Injury Impacts

Yesterday was a difficult day.

I woke from a dream of obtaining work. That thought fell away like a collapsing mirage and I was left facing fact. Today dawned grey and wet, the sky echoing with drumbeats of thunder. After waking, I lay still and listened to the endless beat and slosh of rain and found myself enumerating brain injury impacts. As best I understand them the impacts are these.
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