| I had a minor head injury in a car accident and definitely noticed a decline. Ways to cope: 1) accept it and don't attach yourself to a probably inflated sense of what you were capable of before 2) take care of yourself in the food, sleep, exercise, stress, and stimulation departments. especially valuable is doing things that stimulate your brain in entirely different ways like playing music or doing artwork or some mentally involved task that isn't the same as your day job 3) medication absolutely can have these kinds of effects, you have to weigh the costs and benefits 4) get better and more organized at the practice of problem solving, if you're having trouble doing it without thinking about it, create a system. Checklists, playbooks, or any other sort of organized framework where you have a plan with steps how to solve a problem, 5) each day take time to reflect on that day. what went well, what didn't, what you'd like to change and ideas of how to change it In the end, often things that were easy get harder with time and that can be mitigated by being a little more intentional about trying to do well at what you want to do. Also, give yourself a break! |