Bookwork Entry 8

After meeting with a care manager at the University of Utah ' s COVID Long Hauler clinic, I gained some new information that explained what I ' ve been going through this year. I ' ve been needlessly hard on myself for not getting over something that has impacted me greatly and will continue to impact me greatly for months to come.I also point out recent successes, which shows me that this was a good project to undertake. I will overcome this illness. I will make my goals. This journal is helping me analzye things that have been overwhelming me for some time as well as allowing me to rethink overly agressive goals that may be fun or challenging, but don ' t get me published.(Mobile browsers only display the first page. Please view the text entry after the embedded PDF …) 17 SEPTEMBER 2022Bookwork 8: I now have a name for my greatest stumbling block:Post Exertion MalaiseCommon with other viral fatigue syndromes, Post-COVID has the symptom of taking you down after physical or mental exertion. Isn ' t that neat? There is nothing I can do about it. There is no " cure " . Just months and months of convalescence. At the very least, I should stop calling myself lazy when I have to take a nap after blogging, which happened to me last week.As of last week, I have blogged two weeks in a row. If I can blog again today, that will be three weeks in a row. I haven ' t even been able to blog monthly at this point, so I consider this a big win. The Post-COVID brain fog has been debili...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Bookwork Journaling Writing Source Type: blogs