Explanation of my "fog" symptoms

How do I explain how I feel? I don't feel like “me”. Instead, I feel different, strange like. I have trouble making sense of what I write or type. My brain feels like it's working slowly. It frustrates me and that brings on the tears! I've also been having trouble sleeping and that just makes my cognition much worse. I feel as though I'm reaching out for a friend's hand for comfort or help, but we can't quite reach each other. I have felt myself slipping away. This is not a very good feeling and I wish it would go away quickly.

I remember that I've experienced this before, but I think that it has been several months since I felt like this. I just feel overwhelmed and yet I'm only working half the hours that I was a month ago. I read the posts on social media and I just feel the tears streaming down my face because I want to comment on a post and cannot. The words can't be put together to make sentences that mean anything to me. It's as though I'm lost and I can't find my way home.

Today, as I worked my four-and-a-half-hour shift as a cashier. I hoped and pray that I could somehow get through it okay. It seemed like I was doing okay at work, but I was working a little slower. I notice that instead of being able to do some tasks that I've done for about three years, without really much thought, they now take some thought to be done. It seems as though the processing speed in my brain is slower and I'm used to being able to work faster.

I thought that many of these symptoms have appeared only within the last couple of days, then I remembered that I had a little fog on Sunday when visiting my mom. The thing is I can drive to work without any problems, pretty much do my job, which is very repetitious. It almost seems like these recent problems are “language based”, which mostly involves words and sentences. This doesn't make much sense to me, but maybe it will to someone else. I miss feeling like “me” and hopefully I will find my way back very soon. As you can see, I am able to type this post, but if I were to try and put my thoughts together to respond to someone else's post, it would most likely not happen. While I'm typing this, my apartment is very quiet so that I can concentrate on the words that I type. If I have music or the tv on, it would make it much more difficult and maybe even impossible. I'm usually the one who can't really comprehend a long post, but yet I can type it. Oh, how complicated the human brain is!