u/Desperate_Pound3024

I feel like a bad person, but I’ve had dogs in the past before. The last one we had died five years ago and my mom is retired and likes to travel a lot and I feel like I just can’t take care of the dog. I don’t want anything relying on me to take care of it. I feel bad, but I think that’s for the best.

Is it possible that this has been the cause of my brain fog all along? I have terrible executive dysfunction and mental exhaustion. I don’t have the symptoms of feeling cold and if there is a breathlessness symptoms it’s very not noticeable. I was honestly surprised to find out I was anemic. I was told I was at my last doctors visit so I figured I would make a point to just ingest more iron rich foods, as I felt I ate a pretty very diet anyways. What the issue turned out to be I imagine is that I am a heavy coffee drinker and we drink coffee all around the clock. I also consume large amounts of dairy with almost every meal of the milk and cheese variety. My doctor wasn’t sure that was the cause, but would’ve read online, that seems to be it.

ETA: I was told that my last visit I had iron deficiency anemia. However, I didn’t take the supplements and just ate more sardines and tuna. I was worried because my dad actually died of hemochromatosis. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case with me and at my follow up visit six months later it seems my iron stores were further depleted so I am now supplementing and no longer consuming coffee around the clock and have cut out dairy products.

I don’t know if I’m just not creative or if my executive dysfunction is so bad that I can’t even make myself record a video. It’s been so many years that it is awkward at this point and I don’t know how to use my voice if it’s being recorded.

I feel like I want to have more of a social media presence to be normal, I know it’s not good to not be genuine but K can’t figure this out because I want to, I feel not a part of society not doing so and I don’t know if I’m really just empty or if it’s my executive dysfunction .