Mental health - please take care of it

Good idea.

Admittedly, caffeine has never been much of an addiction of mine, SUGAR on the other hand…
I’ve always had a hard time controlling my sugar intake.

Admittedly I’ve done a poor job of these things recently. I’m on levetiracetam which doesn’t really SEEM TO dampen my brain function but I’ve been stretched pretty thin, haven’t gotten much sleep, and I’m recovering from sickness so I haven’t been eating much, so all those things may be dampening my brain function enough for me not to notice.

Admittedly, this wasn’t as hard for me as waking up to find everybody worried about me while I FEEL fine.
Of course I’m not fine and my family has every reason to be worried about me but it’s hard not to feel a bit embarrassed/ashamed when I “wake up” to find everyone in my house around me worried about me while I’m in my underwear. I tend to have this shame response which makes me want to hide my mental dampening for fear of feeling stupid.

Do you have any recommendations to allow your own brain to recognize that it’s not your fault that everyone is worried about you?

For those without context this is about seizures.

My sister’s partner’s mom is a nurse who I’m going to see tomorrow, hopefully I can get a referral to a local neurologist that actually exists.

This still does make me sad though. I like to operate vehicles…

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