How do cognitive issues affect you?

It is the unseen element of these issues that gets me. I look ‘normal’ – whatever that ‘normal’ looks like….

Some of the issues facing people like me include:

• Difficulty in evaluating the result of actions and reduced ability to change behaviour or switch between tasks if needed.
• Finding it hard to anticipate consequences
• Decreased ability to make accurate judgements or find solutions if things are going wrong
• Acting too quickly and impulsively without fully thinking through the consequences, for example, spending more money than can be afforded.
• Difficulty in controlling emotions which may lead to outbursts of emotion such as anger or crying
• Rapid mood changes may occur, for example, switching from happiness to sadness for no apparent reason
• Reduced ability to engage in social interactions
• Finding it hard to initiate, participate in, or pay attention to conversations
• Poor judgement in social situations, which may lead to saying or doing inappropriate things
• Finding it harder to concentrate
• Difficulty with learning new information
• Decreased memory for past or current events, which may lead to disorientation.
• Not that I suffer from all of them but it is so frustrating that I suffer from any and can do so little about them except for being strong, flexible and understanding and gracious to myself.

That is why I love Neuro Linguistic Programming as it allows my mind to think differently about the situation that I am in.