I used to be so intelligent, so full of potential... This disease has stolen everything from me
I tested at a master's degree level equivalent of knowledge for English comprehension when I was in my second year of high school.
I was an avid writer, reader, and music lover.
I had dreams to be somebody, to do something that mattered.
That all ended when I got COVID at age 20.
I'm almost 24 now, living with the abusive parent I swore I would never so much as talk to again.
I spend my days in bed, researching any kind of treatment or supplement that could give me any level of cognitive functioning back.
I can quite literally tell that I have become so much less intelligent. I can feel it. I can feel what I lost. I feel like I am reaching into darkness where once there was something tangible. Like trying to recall a memory you know is there but nothing is coming to mind.
My life and my future was stolen.
It's gone, and I cannot accept that it will never be back, at least not the way that it was.
I used to be somebody. I used to have potential.
Now I live in bed, miserable.