@Booble Yes!!! Enthusiasm crashes me immediately. I get all flushed and have air hunger and instant brain fog. It’s like a limb got chopped off, not to be able to give in to enthusiasm. I love to geek out about pretty much everything in life. Some days it seem like it takes all my energy just NOT to burst out in some silly antic when something awesome is happening. I used to looove adrenaline, I had a motorcycle and I rock-climbed and had an exciting career... now it’s my nemesis (scary music plays...*dun dun duuun*).
I’ve been browsing just now to try and get tips on managing cognitive exertion - I’ve been sick 18 months and I‘ve pretty much figured out my physical exertion limits (staying within them is another matter altogether, haha!

) But I haven’t gotten good at recognizing signs of too much cognitive exertion yet, and I think it’s contributing a lot to the severity of my illness. Some days I just can’t focus at all, light and noise is painful, so it’s obvious I shouldn’t do anything. But other days I can do a little browsing online or hanging out with my kids, or maybe a video chat with a friend, and then it isn’t til later I realize my coathanger pain is off the charts or my eyes don’t work anymore, and I have no idea when it started.
Anyone know of threads I could check out to help me learn my cognitive exertion signs? Which reminds me, I’d better sign off now before I read too much and crash myself.
